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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2024, 4:12 AM CDT for Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 17 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
- Apr 26, 2024, 4:12 AM CDT (09:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2024, 4:29 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 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 09:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1599 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
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 Apr 26, 3:33 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 3:33 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 3:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 4:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 4:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 4:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 7:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 10:42 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 26 min |
| Apr 26, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 67 min |
| Apr 26, 2:29 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 11 more | 53 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Wilson | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 27 min |
| Apr 26, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 16 min |
| Apr 26, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 14 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.