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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Wichita, KS

July 16, 2024Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2024, 3:08 AM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 82 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 16, 2024, 3:08 AM CDT (08:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2024, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 82 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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 00:00Z, 8.1 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.

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: 1417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 16, 12:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 12:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:26 AM CDT, 42 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
226 AM CDT Tue Jul 16 2024

KSZ092-093-160800-
Cowley KS-Sumner KS-
226 AM CDT Tue Jul 16 2024

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN COWLEY AND
SOUTHEASTERN SUMNER COUNTIES THROUGH 300 AM CDT...

At 226 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a small cluster of strong
thunderstorms near Arkansas City, moving southeast at 10 to 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch 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...
Arkansas City, Winfield, Dexter, Geuda Springs, Maple City, and
Strother Field Airport.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3700 9726 3727 9714 3727 9670 3700 9665
TIME...MOT...LOC 0726Z 294DEG 13KT 3711 9707

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

KLEINSASSER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	34 min
Jul 16, 3:10 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Kingman, Labette and 5 more	17 hr
Jul 16, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	Russell	54 min
Jul 16, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	71 min
Jul 16, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Saline	79 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.