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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2010, 12:06 AM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 12, 2010, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2010, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Neosho County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 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 11, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
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 11, 11:32 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 11:32 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 12:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 100 min |
| May 12, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Reno, Rice | 46 min |
| May 12, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 66 min |
| May 12, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 54 min |
| May 12, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno | 37 min |
| May 12, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 36 min |
| May 12, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 33 min |
| May 12, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 27 min |
| May 12, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 16 min |
| May 12, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 24 min |
| May 12, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 32 min |
| May 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 45 min |
| May 12, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 36 min |
| May 12, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 47 min |
| May 12, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 65 min |
| May 12, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 17 min |
| May 12, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner | 60 min |
| May 12, 5:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 5 hr |
| May 12, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 42 min |
| May 12, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Sedgwick | 66 min |
| May 12, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 34 min |
| May 12, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 36 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.