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Wind Chill Advisory 4, NWS Wichita, KS

February 21, 20225 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 21, 2022, 3:24 AM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 22, 2022, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 2022, 3:24 AM CST (09:24 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 22, 2022, 3:00 AM CST
Expired
Feb 22, 2022, 11:00 AM CST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 328 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2022-02-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2022-02-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 2:59 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryICTBarton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more44 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Kansas, 2022Every wind chill advisory in 2022

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.