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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Wichita, KS

May 26, 2021Sedgwick County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2021, 11:35 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2021, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2021, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 11:40 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 62	5 Nw Clearwater, KS
May 27, 12:04 AM CDT	TSTM WND GST 58	Wichita Eisenhower Nati, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 1992 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 22.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

534 
WUUS53 KICT 270435
SVRICT
KSC173-191-270500-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0061.210527T0435Z-210527T0500Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Wichita KS
1135 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southwestern Sedgwick County in south central Kansas...
  Northwestern Sumner County in south central Kansas...

* Until midnight CDT.

* At 1135 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Viola, or 
  near Conway Springs, moving northeast at 25 mph. This storm 
  produced a 56 mph measured wind gust near Viola.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
  Clearwater around 1155 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Goddard and Eisenhower National Airport.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3733 9750 3736 9776 3760 9767 3768 9756
      3768 9743 3759 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 0435Z 212DEG 23KT 3744 9762 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

DARMOFAL

1 follow-up statement

497 
WWUS53 KICT 270455
SVSICT

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
1155 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021

KSC173-191-270504-
/O.EXP.KICT.SV.W.0061.000000T0000Z-210527T0500Z/
Sedgwick KS-Sumner KS-
1155 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN SEDGWICK AND
NORTHWESTERN SUMNER COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT CDT...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.  However gusty
winds to around 50 mph are still likely with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3733 9750 3736 9776 3760 9767 3768 9756
      3768 9743 3759 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 0454Z 212DEG 23KT 3754 9754 

$$

DARMOFAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice	45 min
May 26, 7:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	4 hr
May 26, 7:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	4 days
May 26, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Rice	47 min
May 26, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	47 min
May 26, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	33 min
May 26, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno	45 min
May 26, 9:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson	15 hr
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	5 hr
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion	30 min
May 26, 10:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	McPherson	5 hr
May 26, 10:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	37 hr
May 26, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	25 min
May 26, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	44 min
May 26, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Marion	50 min
May 26, 11:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Marion	12 hr
May 26, 11:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	36 min
May 26, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	61 min
May 27, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	42 min
May 27, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	46 min
May 27, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sumner	57 min
May 27, 12:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion	25 min
May 27, 12:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	15 min
May 27, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood	62 min
May 27, 1:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	29 min
May 27, 1:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson	35 min
May 27, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood	62 min
May 27, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson, Woodson	22 min
May 27, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen, Chautauqua, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	57 min
May 27, 2:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	26 min
May 27, 3:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	23 min
May 27, 3:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette, Neosho	30 min
May 27, 9:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho	37 hr
May 27, 9:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	71 hr
May 27, 9:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Labette	4 days
May 27, 9:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	35 hr
May 27, 10:20 AM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 5 more	7 hr
May 27, 12:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	28 min
May 27, 12:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	36 min
May 27, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	29 min
May 27, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	31 min
May 27, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	26 min
May 27, 2:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	4 hr
May 27, 2:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	18 hr
May 27, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	24 min
May 27, 4:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	4 hr

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.