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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Wichita, KS

May 12, 2010Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2010, 3:59 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 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, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2010, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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 12, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

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 12, 3:18 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 3:18 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 12, 3:35 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 3:37 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 3:39 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 3:41 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 3:52 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
352 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0352 PM     TORNADO          6 E INMAN               38.23N 97.66W
05/12/2010                   MCPHERSON          KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TORNADO ON GROUND.

&&

JAS

Local storm report, May 12, 3:59 PM CDT, 0 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 12, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	39 min
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, 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.