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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 330, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2019, 8:00 PM CDT for Barton County, Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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 20, 2019, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2019, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 5140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 22.9
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 20, 6:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 6:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 20, 7:43 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
743 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0740 PM TSTM WND GST CHASE 38.36N 98.35W
08/20/2019 E70 MPH RICE KS EMERGENCY MNGR
DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED WITH WINDS UP TO 70MPH
IN CHASE. REPORTS RECEIVED OF SHINGLES BEING BLOWN OFF OF
ROOFS AS WELL.
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TVAUGHANLocal storm report, Aug 20, 7:46 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
746 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0745 PM HAIL 4 W CHASE 38.36N 98.42W
08/20/2019 E1.00 INCH RICE KS TRAINED SPOTTER
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TVAUGHANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Rice | 40 min |
| Aug 20, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 12 more | 30 hr |
| Aug 21, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno | 13 min |
| Aug 21, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 64 min |
Nearby
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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.