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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 18, 2022, 3:04 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 18, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 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 18, 2022, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2022, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 2026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.