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Wind Chill Advisory 6, NWS Wichita, KS

December 23, 202214 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 23, 2022, 2:58 AM CST for 14 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 23, 2022, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 23, 2022, 2:58 AM CST (08:58 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 23, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 24, 2022, 9:00 AM CST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 234 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 00:00Z on 2022-12-23Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2022-12-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -261 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
124 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Dec 22, 5:29 PM CST, 9 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 5:29 PM CST, 9 hours 29 minutes before
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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.