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Dense Fog Advisory 8, NWS Wichita, KS

May 26, 202111 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this dense fog advisory at May 26, 2021, 5:44 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2021, 5:44 AM CDT (10:44 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2021, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1016 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory 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 dense fog advisory went out at May 26, 2:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	24 min
May 25, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	25 min
May 25, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	29 min
May 26, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	32 min
May 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	44 min
May 26, 2:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	39 min
May 26, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	43 min
May 26, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	36 min
May 26, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	32 min
May 26, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	41 min
May 26, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	63 min
May 26, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	49 min
May 26, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	32 min
May 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	46 min
May 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	26 hr
May 26, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	47 min
May 26, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	44 min
May 26, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	29 min
May 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	17 hr
May 26, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	46 min
May 26, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth	28 min
May 26, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	54 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	26 min
May 26, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	32 min
May 26, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	35 min
May 26, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	46 min

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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.