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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Wichita, KS

May 6, 2024Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2024, 3:59 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 6, 2024, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2024, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 6, 11:34 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 303 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 381 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 6, 2:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 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 5, 11:40 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more	49 min
May 6, 12:29 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more	6 hr
May 6, 7:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	37 hr
May 6, 7:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	68 hr
May 6, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Barton	38 min
May 6, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Barton	48 min
May 6, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice	58 min
May 6, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	33 min
May 6, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	44 min
May 6, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	40 min
May 6, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	McPherson, Reno, Rice	66 min
May 6, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Reno	49 min
May 6, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	43 min
May 6, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	McPherson, Saline	58 min
May 6, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Rice	32 min
May 6, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	62 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.