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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2022, 7:22 PM CDT for Chase 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
- Apr 23, 2022, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2022, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Chase County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 22 min |
| Apr 23, 8:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 37 min |
| Apr 23, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 32 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.