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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 7:54 AM CST | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 24 hr |
| Jan 12, 10:11 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 79 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.