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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS

January 11, 20197 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter storm warning at Jan 11, 2019, 9:10 PM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 11, 2019, 9:10 PM CST (03:10 UTC)
Expired
Jan 12, 2019, 11:37 AM CST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2019-01-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2019-01-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 11, 5:51 PM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 5:51 PM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 11, 3:57 PM CST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Wichita KS
357 PM CST Fri Jan 11 2019

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-122200-
Russell-Lincoln-Barton-Ellsworth-Saline-Rice-McPherson-Marion-Chase-
Reno-Harvey-Butler-Greenwood-Woodson-Allen-Kingman-Sedgwick-Harper-
Sumner-Cowley-Elk-Wilson-Neosho-Chautauqua-Montgomery-Labette-
357 PM CST Fri Jan 11 2019

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Central Kansas,
South Central Kansas and Southeast Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Tonight

Accumulating snowfall of 2 to 5 inches is expected tonight into
Saturday morning across central Kansas and portions of south
central and southeast Kansas. Snow is most likely to impact travel
for locations generally along and north of a Hutchinson to Newton to
Eureka to Iola line. Refer to the Winter Weather Advisory for
details.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

Snow will end across the area by early Saturday afternoon. Some
travel impacts can be expected mainly before noon.

Water levels on the Cow Creek are expected to rise from Lyons to
Hutchinson over the weekend into early next week. However no
flooding is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. However reports of
snow and snow amounts are greatly appreciated.

&&

For a graphical version of this information, see our webpage at:
http://weather.gov/wichita/hwo/

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 12, 7:54 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningICTReno, Rice24 hr
Jan 12, 10:11 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson79 min

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Kansas, 2019Every winter storm warning in 2019

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.