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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Wichita, KS

October 30, 2024Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 30, 2024, 3:35 PM CDT for Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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: Oct 30, 2024, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 2024, 4:09 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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
Oct 30, 2:07 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 Oct 30, 2:42 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 2:42 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 30, 3:58 AM CDT, 11 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 30, 11:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 30, 2:51 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Wichita KS
251 PM CDT Wed Oct 30 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0247 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     3 E Penalosa            37.72N 98.27W
10/30/2024  E60 MPH          Kingman            KS   Trained Spotter

            Trained spotter estimates 50 to 60 mph winds
            and reports pea sized hail.

&&

Local storm report, Oct 30, 2:55 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Wichita KS
255 PM CDT Wed Oct 30 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0242 PM     Hail             Turon                   37.81N 98.42W
10/30/2024  E0.88 Inch       Reno               KS   Emergency Mngr

            Mostly pea sized hail with some nickel sized
            hail.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 11:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	42 min
Oct 30, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	53 min
Oct 30, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Sedgwick	58 min
Oct 30, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	61 min
Oct 30, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	56 min
Oct 30, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk	65 min
Oct 30, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson	53 min

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.