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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 292, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2019, 6:03 PM CDT for Allen County, Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2019, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2019, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Allen County, KS, Neosho County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 632 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 7, 3:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Wichita KS 454 PM CDT Wed Aug 7 2019 KSZ072-072230- Allen KS- 454 PM CDT Wed Aug 7 2019 The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a * Significant Weather Advisory for... Eastern Allen County in southeastern Kansas... * Until 530 PM CDT. * At 450 PM CDT...National Weather Service Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm with locally heavy rainfall over Moran, or near La Harpe...moving southeast at 40 mph. hail up to the size of dimes...and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. * Locations impacted include... La Harpe, Gas, Moran, Savonburg, Elsmore and Mildred. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 3773 9524 3804 9543 3804 9508 3773 9509 TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 315DEG 42KT 3790 9522 HAYES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Chase, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Labette and 4 more | 49 hr |
| Aug 7, 8:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 9:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 22 min |
| Aug 7, 11:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 12:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 36 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.