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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2024, 3:29 AM CDT for McPherson County, Reno County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 13, 2024, 3:29 AM CDT (08:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2024, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 4 hr |
| Aug 13, 2:45 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 16 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson | 5 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Aug 13, 4:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, McPherson, Marion | 5 hr |
| Aug 13, 5:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 1:53 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 15 more | 29 hr |
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.