Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2012, 5:34 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. 7 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
- Jun 20, 2012, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 5:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 4 N Gorham, KS | PING PONG BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY THE NSSL SHAVE PROJECT. |
| Jun 20, 5:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 4 N Gorham, KS | PING PONG BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY THE NSSL SHAVE PROJECT. |
| Jun 20, 5:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 8 Nnw Russell, KS | |
| Jun 20, 6:00 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 2 E Gorham, KS | |
| Jun 20, 6:06 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Russell, KS | |
| Jun 20, 6:17 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | Russell, KS | |
| Jun 20, 6:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 1 S Russell, KS | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED HAIL LASTING FOR 20 MINUTES AND MIXED WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1488 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
627
WUUS53 KICT 202234
SVRICT
KSC167-202330-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0155.120620T2234Z-120620T2330Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
534 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 529 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GORHAM...AND
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RUSSELL.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 176 AND 185.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3906 9904 3912 9877 3888 9871 3884 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 253DEG 17KT 3896 9901
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
CARUSO2 follow-up statements
864
WWUS53 KICT 202243
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
543 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012
KSC167-202330-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0155.000000T0000Z-120620T2330Z/
RUSSELL KS-
543 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN
RUSSELL COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT...
AT 538 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST
OF GORHAM...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE DAMAGE...
WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RUSSELL.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 176 AND 185.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3906 9904 3912 9877 3888 9871 3884 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 266DEG 15KT 3895 9896
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
CARUSO228
WWUS53 KICT 202256
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
556 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012
KSC167-202330-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0155.000000T0000Z-120620T2330Z/
RUSSELL KS-
556 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN
RUSSELL COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT...
AT 553 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GORHAM...AND
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE DAMAGE...
WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RUSSELL.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 176 AND 185.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3906 9904 3912 9877 3888 9871 3884 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 300DEG 11KT 3890 9894
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
CARUSOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 48 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.