Alert archive / Kansas / Freeze Warnings in 2020
Freeze Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this freeze warning at Apr 9, 2020, 3:37 AM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 10, 2020, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 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
- Apr 9, 2020, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2020, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2020, 7:42 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.