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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2024, 2:08 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Cowley County, Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2024, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 573 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 572 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 10:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Wichita KS 1048 AM CDT Fri Apr 26 2024 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-271600- Russell-Lincoln-Barton-Ellsworth-Saline-Rice-McPherson-Marion-Chase- Reno-Harvey-Butler-Greenwood-Woodson-Allen-Kingman-Sedgwick-Harper- Sumner-Cowley-Elk-Wilson-Neosho-Chautauqua-Montgomery-Labette- 1048 AM CDT Fri Apr 26 2024 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Central Kansas, South Central Kansas and Southeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A few isolated thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening, primarily along and east of a line from Emporia to Eureka to Sedan. If storms are able to form, they will be capable of baseball size hail and damaging winds. A tornado or two cannot be ruled out as well. Strong south to southwest winds gusting to 35 to 45 mph will impact central and eastern Kansas today. The strong winds will fuel very high grassfire danger this afternoon over central and north- central Kansas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Severe storms are possible on Saturday. There is also the potential for localized flooding where training thunderstorms occur. Thunderstorm chances may linger across far southeast Kansas on Sunday. Additional storm chances are possible Tuesday and Wednesday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is possible along and east of the Flint Hills this afternoon and evening, and areawide Saturday afternoon and night. && For a graphical version of this information, see our webpage at: https://www.weather.gov/erh/ghwo?wfo=ict
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 26, 12:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Wichita KS
1200 PM CDT Fri Apr 26 2024
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 AM Rain 2 NNW Parsons 37.37N 95.29W
04/26/2024 M3.80 Inch Labette KS CO-OP Observer
24 hour total
0700 AM Rain 1 SW Neodesha 37.42N 95.69W
04/26/2024 M2.20 Inch Wilson KS CO-OP Observer
In the past 24 hours
0700 AM Rain Moran 37.91N 95.17W
04/26/2024 M2.13 Inch Allen KS CO-OP Observer
24 hour value
0900 AM Rain 1 NNE Galesburg 37.49N 95.35W
04/26/2024 M1.89 Inch Neosho KS CO-OP Observer
In the previous 24 hours
0600 AM Rain Erie 37.57N 95.25W
04/26/2024 M1.68 Inch Neosho KS Cocorahs
24 hour total
0600 AM Rain 1 E Iola 37.93N 95.39W
04/26/2024 M1.68 Inch Allen KS Cocorahs
In the past 24 hours
0700 AM Rain 1 NE Oswego 37.18N 95.10W
04/26/2024 M1.67 Inch Labette KS CO-OP Observer
24 hour value
&&Special weather statement, Apr 26, 2:04 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
204 PM CDT Fri Apr 26 2024
KSZ069-093-094-261930-
Butler KS-Cowley KS-Elk KS-
204 PM CDT Fri Apr 26 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WESTERN ELK...NORTHEASTERN
COWLEY AND SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM CDT...
At 204 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Grenola, or 16 miles north of Cedar Vale, moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Howard, Grenola, and Cambridge.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3724 9675 3761 9654 3760 9602 3730 9642
3730 9652 3722 9652 3721 9654
TIME...MOT...LOC 1904Z 222DEG 40KT 3735 9656
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
JAKUBThe office that day
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, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 17 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, 2:29 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.