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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 16, 2022, 2:24 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 18, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Oct 16, 2022, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2022, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
All 26 counties
Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 1435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 45 min |
| Oct 15, 9:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 51 min |
| Oct 15, 10:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 40 min |
| Oct 15, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 52 min |
| Oct 15, 11:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 48 min |
| Oct 15, 11:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 47 min |
| Oct 16, 3:04 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Elk and 15 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:24 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell, Saline | 20 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:41 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | ICT | Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 24 hr |
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.