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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Wichita, KS

August 29, 2022Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2022, 5:37 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 29, 2022, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2022, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1392 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1392 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 28, 5:44 PM CDT, 23 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 5:44 PM CDT, 23 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 7:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarper37 min
Aug 28, 9:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLincoln24 min
Aug 29, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTEllsworth34 min
Aug 29, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Russell47 min
Aug 29, 5:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTEllsworth32 min
Aug 29, 6:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTBarton30 min
Aug 29, 6:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTBarton31 min
Aug 29, 6:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTEllsworth30 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.