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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Wichita, KS

July 14, 2023Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2023, 5:48 PM CDT for Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 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: Jul 14, 2023, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2023, 6:08 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Cowley County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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
Jul 14, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -486 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -100 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 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 Jul 14, 2:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 5:34 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 5:38 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 5:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	50 min
Jul 14, 11:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	64 min
Jul 14, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	78 min
Jul 14, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	62 min
Jul 14, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	59 min
Jul 14, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice	62 min
Jul 14, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	58 min
Jul 14, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	42 min
Jul 14, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	56 min
Jul 14, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Reno, Rice, Saline	69 min
Jul 14, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	30 min
Jul 14, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	35 min
Jul 14, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Marion	45 min
Jul 14, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	38 min
Jul 14, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	60 min
Jul 14, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Marion	60 min
Jul 14, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner	63 min
Jul 14, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	63 min
Jul 14, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Greenwood	37 min
Jul 14, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 1 more	67 min
Jul 14, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	64 min
Jul 14, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	28 min
Jul 14, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 1 more	50 min
Jul 14, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Labette, Montgomery	45 min

Nearby

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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.