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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2024, 5:44 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 14, 2024, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2024, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 510 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 525 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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 Aug 14, 2:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 2:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:31 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
531 PM CDT Wed Aug 14 2024
KSZ047-050-142300-
Rice KS-Barton KS-
531 PM CDT Wed Aug 14 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WESTERN RICE AND SOUTHEASTERN
BARTON COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM CDT...
At 531 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles west of Raymond, or 7 miles southeast of Ellinwood, moving
northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny 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...
Lyons, Chase, Geneseo, Raymond, Frederick, and Silica.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3852 9834 3852 9802 3819 9840 3824 9847
3826 9847 3826 9850 3831 9858
TIME...MOT...LOC 2231Z 229DEG 32KT 3828 9848
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
DARMOFALThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2:47 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Rice | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 52 min |
| Aug 14, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 22 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.