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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2023, 10:10 PM CDT for Allen County, Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Sep 23, 2023, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2023, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Allen County, KS, Neosho County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 9:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 38 min |
| Sep 23, 9:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Wilson | 33 min |
| Sep 23, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Neosho | 30 min |
| Sep 23, 9:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery | 27 min |
| Sep 23, 10:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery | 27 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.