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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Wichita, KS

June 6, 2023Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2023, 3:09 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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: Jun 6, 2023, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2023, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -12 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 Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDT, 20 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDT, 20 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 4:41 PM CDT, 22 hours 28 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
Jun 6, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	50 min
Jun 6, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	25 min
Jun 6, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	25 min
Jun 6, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	18 min
Jun 6, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	29 min
Jun 6, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	28 min
Jun 6, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	26 min
Jun 6, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	47 min
Jun 6, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	29 min
Jun 6, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	42 min
Jun 6, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	34 min
Jun 6, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	27 min
Jun 6, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	21 min
Jun 6, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	27 min
Jun 6, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	36 min
Jun 6, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	32 min
Jun 6, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	23 min
Jun 6, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	32 min
Jun 6, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	31 min
Jun 6, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	36 min
Jun 6, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	29 min
Jun 6, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	27 min
Jun 6, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	33 min
Jun 6, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	36 min
Jun 6, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	31 min
Jun 6, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	25 min
Jun 6, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	31 min
Jun 6, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	37 min
Jun 6, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	35 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.