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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Wichita, KS

July 25, 2012Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2012, 5:39 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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: Jul 25, 2012, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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
Jul 25, 5:42 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 N Atlanta, KS	POWER POLL SNAPPED 2 MILES NORTH OF ATLANTA.
Jul 25, 5:45 PM CDT	HAIL 1	2 N Atlanta, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched 2 storm reports to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 3 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -279 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

481 
WUUS53 KICT 252239
SVRICT
KSC015-035-252315-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0167.120725T2239Z-120725T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
539 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 537 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ATLANTA...
  AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...MINOR TREE DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER
           BROKEN.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LATHAM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3748 9686 3766 9653 3736 9653 3735 9686
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 236DEG 19KT 3745 9677

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60 MPH

$$

LAUGEMAN

1 follow-up statement

801 
WWUS53 KICT 252324
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
624 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

KSC015-035-252334-
/O.EXP.KICT.SV.W.0167.000000T0000Z-120725T2315Z/
BUTLER KS-COWLEY KS-
624 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN COWLEY AND
SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

LAT...LON 3748 9686 3766 9653 3736 9653 3735 9686
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 236DEG 19KT 3745 9677

$$

LAUGEMAN

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 Jul 25, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
305 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

.DISCUSSION...

MAIN FORECAST CONCERN WILL BE STORM CHANCES THIS EVENING THROUGH
THURSDAY.

SYNOPSIS:
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY IS SHOWING A STRONG SHORTWAVE OVER SOUTHWEST
MANITOBA WITH SOME ADDITIONAL ENERGY OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES.
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY IS ALSO SHOWING A VERY WEAK PIECE OF ENERGY THAT
LIFTED OUT OF NW TX WHICH IS PROVIDING SOME ACCUS AND LIGHT RETURNS
OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KS. AT THE SURFACE THE WEAK COLD FRONT
STRETCHES FROM NORTH OF OMAHA TO NORTH OF GARDEN CITY AND IS
CONTINUING TO SLOWLY PUSH SOUTH.

TONIGHT-THU:
HOW WIDESPREAD THE CONVECTION IS ALONG THE FRONT THIS EVENING
REMAINS THE MAIN QUESTION. CONFIDENCE STILL REMAINS HIGH THAT STORMS
WILL DEVELOPING ALONG THIS BOUNDARY EARLY THIS EVENING WITH THE
INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OVER W-NW KS. FEEL A BIT MORE CONFIDENT NOW THAT
THIS ACTIVITY WILL MAINTAIN SOME COVERAGE AFTER DARK GIVEN THE
AMOUNT OF ACCUS THAT IS CURRENTLY OUT THERE INDICATING MINIMAL
ELEVATED CAPPING IN PLACE...WHICH THE NAM HAS BEEN SHOWING THE LAST
FEW RUNS. THEREFORE WILL MAINTAIN AT LEAST CHANCE POPS OVER MOST OF
THE FORECAST AREA INTO THU MORNING.

MODELS HAVE STAYED CONSISTENT WITH THE FRONT STRETCHING THROUGH SE
KS BY THU AFTERNOON WITH THIS FEATURE AGAIN BEING THE FOCUS FOR
CONVECTION. GIVEN SOME BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER SE KS ALONG
WITH SOME DEEP LAYER SHEAR...SHOULD SEE A STRONG OR SEVERE STORM
ALONG THE FRONT TOMORROW AFTERNOON. EVEN THOUGH THIS FRONT WILL
PROVIDE SOME MINOR RELIEF FROM THE HEAT...TEMPS WILL STILL BE WELL
ABOVE NORMAL.

FRI-WED:
WE WON'T WAIT LONG TO GET BACK INTO THE EXCESSIVE HEAT THROUGH THESE
EXTENDED PERIODS.

BY 00Z SAT THE UPPER TROUGH WILL EXTENDING THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY
WITH THE SURFACE FRONT DOWN SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER. BOTH THE GFS AND
ECMWF AGREE ON BUILDING THE UPPER RIDGE BACK-IN OVER THE SOUTHERN
PLAINS FOR THE WEEKEND. THE POSITION OF THIS HIGH WILL REALLY ALLOW
THE SUMMER MONSOON TO GET CRANKED UP OVER THE DESERT SW INTO THE
ROCKIES. SOME OF THIS MOISTURE/ENERGY MAY TRY TO SNEAK INTO NW KS
LATER IN THE WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK...BUT WILL LEAVE DRY FOR NOW.
BOTH MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE ALSO STILL FORECASTING A GRADUAL
INCREASE IN 850MB TEMPS WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE EXCESSIVE HEAT
CONTINUING INTO MID WEEK.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
WICHITA-KICT    76  98  74 101 /  30  30  10  10
HUTCHINSON      75  97  72 101 /  40  20  10  10
NEWTON          75  96  73 101 /  40  30  10  10
ELDORADO        76  97  74 100 /  30  30  10  10
WINFIELD-KWLD   78  99  74 101 /  20  30  20  10
RUSSELL         70  99  70 101 /  40  10  10   0
GREAT BEND      72  99  71 102 /  40  10  10   0
SALINA          74  98  73 101 /  40  20  10  10
MCPHERSON       74  97  73 101 /  40  20  10  10
COFFEYVILLE     79  99  74 102 /  20  50  20  10
CHANUTE         77  96  73 100 /  30  40  10  10
IOLA            77  95  73  99 /  30  40  10  10
PARSONS-KPPF    78  97  73 101 /  20  50  20  10

&&

.ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR KSZ032-033-047>053-
067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 4:59 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
459 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-261000-
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-
459 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT

HEAT INDICES OF 104 TO 107 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED INTO THE EARLY
EVENING HOURS ACROSS THE AREA. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST HEAT
ADVISORY FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST KANSAS EARLY THIS EVENING WITH STORM COVERAGE INCREASING
OVERNIGHT AS A WEAK COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE
STRONGER STORMS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH.

VERY HIGH GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER IS LIKELY THIS EVENING...GENERALLY
WEST OF INTERSTATE I-135.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON THE WEAK COLD FRONT WILL BE SITUATED
THROUGH SOUTHEAST KANSAS WITH SCATTERED STRONG TO MARGINALLY
SEVERE STORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG IT.

EVEN THOUGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO COOL A FEW DEGREES
THURSDAY...HEAT INDICES SHOULD ONCE AGAIN WARM BACK INTO THE 100 TO
105 DEGREE RANGE FOR FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND WITH EVEN HOTTER
CONDITIONS POSSIBLE FOR THE START OF NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT DUE TO THE
EXPECTED ISOLATED NATURE OF SEVERE STORM CHANCES.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

BILLINGS/LAWSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:58 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
458 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

KSZ047-252230-
BARTON-
458 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BARTON COUNTY...

AT 454 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OTIS...OR 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT
BEND...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 9903 3870 9874 3844 9875 3846 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 261DEG 22KT 3856 9898

LAUGEMAN

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:20 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
520 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

KSZ069-252245-
BUTLER-
520 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BUTLER COUNTY...

AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATLANTA...OR 16 MILES
NORTH OF WINFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3748 9702 3774 9665 3749 9652 3748 9653
      3747 9668
TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 243DEG 19KT 3749 9685

LAUGEMAN

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:28 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
528 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

KSZ032-252300-
RUSSELL-
528 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RUSSELL COUNTY...

AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUSSELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3912 9874 3880 9853 3874 9879 3896 9898
TIME...MOT...LOC 2228Z 258DEG 10KT 3888 9882

LAUGEMAN

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:33 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
533 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

KSZ049-252300-
SALINE-
533 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SALINE COUNTY...

AT 528 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 7
MILES SOUTHEAST OF WESTFALL...OR 16 MILES WEST OF SALINA...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3888 9758 3876 9793 3880 9793 3892 9793
      3896 9787 3896 9764
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 242DEG 12KT 3888 9788

MCGUIRE

Local storm report, Jul 25, 5:37 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
537 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

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

0524 PM     TSTM WND GST     RUSSELL                 38.89N 98.85W
07/25/2012  M59 MPH          RUSSELL            KS   ASOS

            59 MPH GUST REPORTED AT THE RUSSELL ASOS.

&&

RBL

Local storm report, Jul 25, 5:38 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
538 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

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

0534 PM     TSTM WND GST     7 N RUSSELL             38.99N 98.85W
07/25/2012  E60 MPH          RUSSELL            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

RBL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	29 min
Jul 25, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	33 min
Jul 25, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	36 min
Jul 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	34 min
Jul 25, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	34 min
Jul 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	31 min
Jul 25, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood	35 min
Jul 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	32 min
Jul 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	25 min
Jul 25, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Greenwood	36 min
Jul 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	32 min
Jul 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	32 min
Jul 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	27 min
Jul 25, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	27 min
Jul 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	33 min
Jul 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	30 min
Jul 25, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	26 min
Jul 25, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	40 min
Jul 25, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	24 min
Jul 25, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.