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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Wichita, KS

August 15, 2024Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2024, 3:42 AM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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 15, 2024, 3:42 AM CDT (08:42 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2024, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Greenwood County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 4529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 440 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 7.7
Supercell composite: 44.6

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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 Aug 15, 2:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 2:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 7:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 11:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 12:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 15, 12:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 1:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 1:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 3:30 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	29 min
Aug 14, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	38 min
Aug 14, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline	22 min
Aug 14, 7:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	24 min
Aug 14, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	McPherson	38 min
Aug 14, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	Marion	52 min
Aug 14, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	50 min
Aug 14, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Chase, Marion	32 min
Aug 14, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno	38 min
Aug 14, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	40 min
Aug 14, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	30 min
Aug 14, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion	31 min
Aug 14, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	48 min
Aug 14, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, Kingman	32 min
Aug 14, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	44 min
Aug 14, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Marion	32 min
Aug 14, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	53 min
Aug 14, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	25 min
Aug 14, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	22 min
Aug 14, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Greenwood, Sedgwick	34 min
Aug 15, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Greenwood, Sedgwick, Woodson	42 min
Aug 15, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	59 min
Aug 15, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	27 min
Aug 15, 1:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk, Greenwood, Woodson	23 min
Aug 15, 3:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	30 min
Aug 15, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson, Woodson	27 min
Aug 15, 6:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	37 min
Aug 15, 9:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	47 hr
Aug 15, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	28 min
Aug 15, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	36 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.