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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2024, 9:56 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 13, 2024, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2024, 10:24 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 13, 6:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
- * Severe storms across central and northeast Kansas late this afternoon and early tonight. * Conditional risk for severe thunderstorms late this afternoon through early tonight across south central and southeast Kansas. * Brief cool down on Friday with another cool down Sun-Mon.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 6:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Wichita KS 629 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024 .KEY MESSAGES... * Severe storms across central and northeast Kansas late this afternoon and early tonight. * Conditional risk for severe thunderstorms late this afternoon through early tonight across south central and southeast Kansas. * Brief cool down on Friday with another cool down Sun-Mon. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 135 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024 A warm front was mixing northward across the area early this morning and is expected to be in the vicinity of the I-70 corridor late this afternoon. This frontal zone will become a focus for showers and storms after 21Z. Low level mass convergence will allow dewpoint temperatures to pool in the warm frontal zone allowing the cap to weaken sufficiently for scattered storms to develop as the pv anomaly lifts out of the base of the H5 toward 00Z. As you move southward along the anticipated dryline, the airmass may remain capped to deep moist convection. Low level backed flow in the vicinity of the warm front along the I-70 corridor will be the most likely location for a tornado or two in addition to very large hail and damaging winds. As we move into the overnight hours, the dryline is progged to retreat westward. There remains a nonzero chance for a storm or two along the retreating dryline but point soundings show a considerable cap which may preclude more vigorous and widespread deep moist convection. Higher probabilities will remain across northeast Kansas where the nose of the LLJ should provide sufficient lift/moisture for more widespread development. A slow moving cold front will eventually merge and overtake the dryline late tonight and into the morning hours on Thursday. The low level frontal zone will continue moving southeast on Thursday and will likely be south and east of our forecast area on Thursday afternoon when the next round of deep moist convection is anticipated. Some low pops were maintained in far southeast KS to account for uncertainty in the movement. Cooler air will overspread central KS with highs struggling to climb out of the 50s while far southeast KS will see well above normal highs once again with values topping out in the upper 70s. Fri-Sat...Cooler air will overspread the area on Friday with seasonable temperatures in the 50s and low 60s anticipated. Another vigorous shortwave trough is progged to dig into the Great Lakes area on Saturday driving a reinforcing shot of cooler air into the Plains. This shot of cool air will be slow to arrive with seasonably mild temperatures expected on Sat. Northwest mid/upper flow will prevail into the middle of next week allowing dry weather conditions to persist across the area. A series of more subtle shortwave troughs will drive some frontal boundaries southward bringing little more than a wind shift with seasonably mild temperatures anticipated through the period. && .AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z FRIDAY/... Issued at 623 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024 A few storms will continue to develop this evening over central Kansas and move eastward. Some of them could become severe near SLN and RSL sites. Otherwise a cold front will push southward tonight across central Kansas with low clouds in the MVFR category developing and expanding southward into south central Kansas by Thursday morning. The low clouds in the MVFR category will linger across much of the area through the morning hours with north winds increasing. && .FIRE WEATHER... Issued at 135 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024 A brief window will exist late this afternoon and early evening for a period of very high grassland fire danger across south central Kansas as a dryline mixes eastward into the area. Gusty south to southwest winds may allow for a brief window where relative humidity falls with wind gusts to around 30+ mph at times. && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && DISCUSSION...MWM AVIATION...CDJ FIRE WEATHER...MWM
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 8:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 13, 6:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
644 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024
KSZ049-140015-
Saline KS-
644 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN SALINE COUNTY
THROUGH 715 PM CDT...
At 644 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Gypsum, or 11 miles northeast of Lindsborg, moving north at 20 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...
Salina, Assaria, Gypsum, Bridgeport, and Kipp.
This includes Interstate 135 between Mile Markers 89 and 90.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
central Kansas.
&&
LAT...LON 3884 9737 3861 9737 3861 9761 3884 9762
TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 187DEG 17KT 3866 9749
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
CUELLARLocal storm report, Mar 13, 7:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 27 min |
| Mar 13, 8:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 25 min |
| Mar 13, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 45 min |
| Mar 13, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 40 min |
| Mar 13, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Mar 13, 11:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 32 min |
| Mar 14, 12:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 12:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 47 min |
| Mar 14, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 58 min |
| Mar 14, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 51 min |
| Mar 14, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 1:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Wilson, Woodson | 44 min |
| Mar 14, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 50 min |
| Mar 14, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 2:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 48 min |
| Mar 14, 2:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 65 min |
| Mar 14, 3:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 32 min |
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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.