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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2010, 7:16 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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
- Jun 12, 2010, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2010, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 2070 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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 Jun 12, 6:49 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:49 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 532 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2010 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-132245- RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE- RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER- SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE- 532 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN ISOLATED STORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT AREAWIDE THROUGH SUNSET. STORMS THROUGH SUNSET IN CENTRAL KANSAS MAY BE SEVERE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND WINDS TO 70 MPH. A BRIEF AND ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE CHANCE OF STORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS LATER TONIGHT...AND THEN SPREAD OVER MUCH OF THE REST OF THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL DECREASE LATER THIS EVENING. HOWEVER THE MAIN THREAT WITH ALL THE STORMS WILL BE THE TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING. SEE THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN FLOODING ACROSS MUCH THE AREA. RISES ON RIVERS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. HOWEVER THE EXTENT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DEPENDENT ON HOW EXTENSIVE RAINFALL AND CLOUDS ARE DURING THE AFTERNOON. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. FLOODING MAY LINGER INTO MID WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. REPORTS OF FLOODING OR EXTREME RAINFALL AMOUNT WOULD BE APPRECIATED. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP HOWERTON
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Reno, Rice | 12 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 12 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 36 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:12 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 42 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:12 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Chase | 4 days |
| Jun 13, 8:12 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Lyon | 4 days |
| Jun 13, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 37 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:04 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 12 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 12 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 12 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 33 hr |
| Jun 13, 10:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:54 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 42 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 4:50 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 54 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.