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Winter Weather Advisory 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 20, 2021, 3:06 PM CST for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 20, 2021, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2021, 3:06 PM CST (21:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2021, 9:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2021, 7:03 AM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harvey 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), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 2128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.