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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Wichita, KS

May 2, 2024Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2024, 12:45 AM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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: May 2, 2024, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2024, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:45 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
May 1, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 2345 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 6.9

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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 May 2, 12:40 AM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 12:40 AM CDT, 5 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
May 2, 1:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	39 min
May 2, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	47 min
May 2, 5:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	57 min
May 2, 12:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Woodson	28 min
May 2, 1:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	30 min
May 2, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	35 min
May 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	63 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.