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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 368, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2019, 9:25 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 20 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
- Sep 25, 2019, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2019, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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
- 444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 Sep 25, 8:53 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 8:53 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 25, 8:38 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
838 PM CDT Wed Sep 25 2019
KSZ082-083-092-260215-
Sumner KS-Sedgwick KS-Kingman KS-
838 PM CDT Wed Sep 25 2019
The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a
* Significant Weather Advisory for...
Northwestern Sumner County in south central Kansas...
Southwestern Sedgwick County in south central Kansas...
Southeastern Kingman County in south central Kansas...
* Until 915 PM CDT.
* At 834 PM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were
tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 8 miles
west of Norwich to 5 miles south of Clearwater...and moving
northeast at 15 mph.
* Hazards...hail up to the size of nickels...and wind gusts up to 50
mph will be possible with these storms.
* Locations impacted include...
Haysville, Clearwater, Conway Springs, Norwich, Viola, Murdock,
Rago and Lake Afton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be prepared to take shelter in the event the storms intensify and
become severe...or a warning is issued by the National Weather
Service.
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LAT...LON 3737 9780 3739 9781 3739 9811 3763 9807
3759 9735 3734 9741
TIME...MOT...LOC 0136Z 214DEG 15KT 3746 9799 3743 9747The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 37 min |
| Sep 25, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 min |
| Sep 25, 9:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 29 min |
| Sep 25, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 33 min |
| Sep 25, 10:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Harper, Sumner | 12 hr |
| Sep 25, 10:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 27 min |
| Sep 26, 1:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| Sep 26, 10:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 15 hr |
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.