Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2011, 6:31 PM CST for Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2011, 6:31 PM CST (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2011, 6:55 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Butler County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:39 PM CST | HAIL 0.88 | 3 N Rose Hill, KS | |
| Feb 27, 6:49 PM CST | HAIL 0.88 | 3 N Rose Hill, KS | ON BUTLER ROAD. |
| Feb 27, 6:54 PM CST | HAIL 0.88 | Augusta, KS | NORTH SIDE OF TOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 914 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
618 WUUS53 KICT 280031 SVRICT KSC015-173-280130- /O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0009.110228T0031Z-110228T0130Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 631 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHEASTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 627 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DERBY...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ROSE HILL...DOUGLASS...AUGUSTA...LEON AND LATHAM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 3779 9688 3748 9653 3748 9728 3757 9737 TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 249DEG 43KT 3758 9721 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ MCGUIRE
2 follow-up statements
625 WWUS53 KICT 280045 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 645 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 KSC173-280054- /O.CAN.KICT.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110228T0130Z/ SEDGWICK KS- 645 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3765 9715 3779 9688 3764 9671 3755 9713 TIME...MOT...LOC 0044Z 249DEG 43KT 3763 9704 $$ KSC015-280130- /O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110228T0130Z/ BUTLER KS- 645 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CST... AT 640 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROSE HILL...OR 14 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AUGUSTA AND LEON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3765 9715 3779 9688 3764 9671 3755 9713 TIME...MOT...LOC 0044Z 249DEG 43KT 3763 9704 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ COX
336 WWUS53 KICT 280055 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 655 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 KSC015-280105- /O.CAN.KICT.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110228T0130Z/ BUTLER KS- 655 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. LAT...LON 3765 9715 3779 9688 3764 9671 3755 9713 TIME...MOT...LOC 0055Z 249DEG 43KT 3768 9688 $$ MCGUIRE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 41 min |
| Feb 27, 6:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 52 min |
| Feb 27, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 16 min |
| Feb 27, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 20 min |
| Feb 27, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 7:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood, Wilson | 13 min |
| Feb 27, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 31 min |
| Feb 27, 9:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 38 min |
| Feb 27, 9:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 17 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.