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Snow Squall Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this snow squall warning at Dec 22, 2022, 9:58 AM CST for Chautauqua County, Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
- Dec 22, 2022, 9:58 AM CST (15:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2022, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1046 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Dec 22, 5:43 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 5:43 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Wichita KS 543 AM CST Thu Dec 22 2022 .SHORT TERM...(Today through Friday night) Issued at 207 AM CST Thu Dec 22 2022 Deep upper trough stretches from the Northern Rockies into the Northern Plains. Extreme cold front is currently situated from Northeast MO into Central OK and is just about to exit our forecast area. Mid level frontogenesis has allowed a band of heavier snow to affect far northern KS/southern Nebraska over the last few hours with this band now starting to progresses southeast. Further south, the drizzle that was falling quickly went to snow as the Arctic air plunged south. However, the bulk of the snowfall is expected to come from this narrow band of heavier snow over the next several hours. This band is expected to start affecting the Hutch to Wichita area generally around 12z and southeast KS in the 14-16z time frame. With the strong winds, we should see the heavier snow produce visibility in the 1/4-1/2sm range as it moves through. Strong winds will also make it difficult to measure snow today but we are currently going with 2 to 3 inches from the Flint Hills into southeast KS with a trace to 2 inches elsewhere. We have already seen wind chills over central KS fall to -30 and these readings will continue to spill south and even cool a few more degrees. Even though winds will be on the decrease this evening into Fri morning, these extreme wind chills will remain as temps continue to fall. So current wind chill warning looks good. By Fri afternoon, the deep upper low will be digging over the Great Lakes region into the Ohio Valley with strong northwest flow over the Plains. Surface high is still forecast to slide east across the forecast area Fri afternoon/night. .LONG TERM...(Saturday through Wednesday) Issued at 207 AM CST Thu Dec 22 2022 By Sat morning this storm system will be centered over western Quebec with the trough encompassing all of the Eastern CONUS. Surface ridge will remain situated over the area for Sat and Sat night. Both ECMWF and GFS agree on diving a fast moving impulse out of southern Saskatchewan and across eastern Nebraska and into the Ozark region by Mon morning/afternoon. Right now will leave the forecast dry with the thinking the better precip chances will remain east of us. Starting Tue, the upper pattern will finally start to flatten out which will start to get us back to more seasonal temperatures. Most locations look to stay near or below freezing until Mon. && .AVIATION...(For the 12Z TAFS through 12Z Friday morning) Issued at 539 AM CST Thu Dec 22 2022 Poor aviation conditions this morning with snow/blowing snow reducing visibilities to around 1/2mile at times with IFR cigs. The snow will quickly move east across the area with rapidly improving sky conditions, however northwest winds will remain quite strong and gusty throughout the day. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Wichita-KICT 3 -4 14 2 / 80 0 0 0 Hutchinson 1 -6 13 -1 / 90 0 0 0 Newton 1 -6 11 0 / 90 0 0 0 ElDorado 1 -5 11 1 / 90 0 0 0 Winfield-KWLD 5 -2 15 3 / 90 0 0 0 Russell -1 -10 13 -6 / 40 0 0 0 Great Bend -1 -9 13 -4 / 70 0 0 0 Salina 1 -7 12 -2 / 70 0 0 0 McPherson 1 -7 11 -2 / 90 0 0 0 Coffeyville 13 -2 14 2 / 90 0 0 0 Chanute 8 -4 11 1 / 90 0 0 0 Iola 6 -5 10 0 / 90 0 0 0 Parsons-KPPF 11 -3 12 2 / 90 0 0 0 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Winter Weather Advisory until 6 PM CST this evening for KSZ032- 033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100. Wind Chill Warning until 1 PM CST Friday for KSZ032-033-047>053- 067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100. && SHORT TERM...RBL LONG TERM...RBL AVIATION...CDJ
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 7:07 AM CST | Snow Squall Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harvey and 9 more | 53 min |
| Dec 22, 8:56 AM CST | Snow Squall Warning | ICT | Allen, Butler, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 6 more | 64 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.