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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this freeze warning at Apr 16, 2020, 3:17 AM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 16, 2020, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 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 16, 2020, 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2020, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2020, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 2257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 16, 3:12 AM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 3:12 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 33 min |
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.