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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 323, NWS Wichita, KS

August 18, 2019Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2019, 12:44 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 76 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 18, 2019, 12:44 AM CDT (05:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2019, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 76 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 17, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

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 17, 6:41 PM CDT, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 6:41 PM CDT, 6 hours 3 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Wichita KS
641 PM CDT Sat Aug 17 2019

.SHORT TERM...(This evening through Tuesday night)
Issued at 313 PM CDT Sat Aug 17 2019

Similar to yesterday, elevated convection continues to fester over
southeast Kansas this afternoon. Another surface outflow boundary
from the early morning convection has weakened across northern
Oklahoma. Pressure perturbation in its wake has resulted in
stronger southerly flow again, and should advect richer surface
moisture/dew points northward into southern Kansas during the
evening. Convective inhibition may weaken enough to allow for
a few storms to develop into far southern Kansas, though better
chances this evening across northwest/north central Oklahoma.
Any surface based convection will be capable of down-burst winds
and hail. Otherwise, perhaps deja vu again for late this evening
and overnight, with high Plains convection rolling east-southeast
across north central into eastern Kansas with mainly a strong to
damaging wind threat. Lingering elevated moisture transport on the
veered/waning low level jet Sunday morning should keep convection
going mainly along/east of the Kansas turnpike. A secondary weak
cold front is progged to drop south across Kansas and position
roughly along the turnpike corridor by late afternoon. This
should be the focus for late day and overnight convection into
Sunday night. The upper ridge will build in over the central
Plains on Monday with warming aloft likely squelching convective
potential or limiting to isolated activity. Dew points look to
also turn-up as well as the heat, resulting in heat indices at or
above 105 across southern Kansas. Tuesday looks even hotter with
the highest heat indices along and east of I-135. A heat advisory
will be considered with later forecasts.

Darmofal

.LONG TERM...(Wednesday through Saturday)
Issued at 313 PM CDT Sat Aug 17 2019

Deeper troughing from eastern Canada across the Great Lakes from
Wednesday into Thursday will allow a decent cold front and cooler
air to advect south across the Midwest and portion of the Plains.
This will send temperatures back closer to seasonal climo with
modest precip/convective chances along the frontal boundary over
the area. Somewhat less confidence on the sensible weather late
in the week, though fairly seasonal with muted chances for
measurable precip.

KED

&&

.AVIATION...(For the 00Z TAFS through 00Z Sunday evening)
Issued at 639 PM CDT Sat Aug 17 2019

Low confidence forecast. VFR is forecast at all sites except near
thunderstorms. Anticipating storms over northwest KS will reach
KRSL/KGBD around 0500 UTC with outflow boundary progressing
south/east during the night. How far east/south the storms evolve
is in question. At this point, KICT is the most questionable
and only went VCSH for now. Plan to amend TAFs later this
evening to included TEMPO TSRA when timing/location becomes more
certain. -Howerton

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Wichita-KICT    72  96  72  96 /  20  20  10   0
Hutchinson      70  95  69  96 /  20  10  10   0
Newton          70  94  70  94 /  20  20  10   0
ElDorado        71  94  72  94 /  30  30  20  10
Winfield-KWLD   74  95  73  96 /  30  20  20   0
Russell         67  90  65  95 /  40   0   0   0
Great Bend      68  92  66  96 /  20   0   0   0
Salina          69  92  68  94 /  40  20   0   0
McPherson       69  93  68  94 /  30  20  10   0
Coffeyville     75  93  75  94 /  30  30  30  10
Chanute         71  92  73  93 /  30  40  30  10
Iola            71  91  73  92 /  40  40  30  10
Parsons-KPPF    70  92  74  93 /  30  30  30  10

&&

.ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.
&&

SHORT TERM...KED
LONG TERM...KED
AVIATION...PJH

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In the hours before

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Local storm report, Aug 17, 11:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 17, 11:52 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1152 PM CDT SAT AUG 17 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1135 PM     TSTM WND GST     MCPHERSON               38.37N 97.66W
08/17/2019  M60 MPH          MCPHERSON          KS   MESONET

            REPORT FROM KDOT MESONET OBSERVATION

&&

HOWERTON

Local storm report, Aug 18, 12:11 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 12:22 AM CDT, 22 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 17, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	79 min
Aug 17, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice	80 min
Aug 17, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Saline	92 min
Aug 17, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	61 min
Aug 17, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	44 min
Aug 17, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion	68 min
Aug 17, 11:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	9 hr
Aug 17, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	65 min
Aug 18, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Reno	73 min
Aug 18, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Marion	79 min
Aug 18, 12:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	54 min
Aug 18, 12:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, Russell	9 hr
Aug 18, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Elk, Greenwood	80 min
Aug 18, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	42 min
Aug 18, 1:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson	8 hr
Aug 18, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson, Rice	6 hr
Aug 18, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood	64 min
Aug 18, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	63 min
Aug 18, 3:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	23 min
Aug 18, 3:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	37 min
Aug 18, 4:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	37 min
Aug 18, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	46 min
Aug 18, 5:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	30 min
Aug 18, 6:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	29 min
Aug 18, 7:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	30 min
Aug 18, 3:32 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 18 more	53 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.