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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Wichita, KS

August 16, 2020Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2020, 8:49 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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
Aug 16, 2020, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2020, 9:07 PM CDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 2020-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 557 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2020-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
557 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 8:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTRussell30 min
Aug 16, 9:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSaline30 min
Aug 16, 9:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLincoln29 min
Aug 16, 11:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTRice33 min
Aug 17, 12:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTReno60 min

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.