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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Wichita, KS

September 7, 2012Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2012, 3:14 PM CDT for Montgomery 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 7, 2012, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2012, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 80.0 mph

County Montgomery County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 7, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 1095 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1368 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

341 
WUUS53 KICT 072014
SVRICT
KSC125-072030-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0178.120907T2014Z-120907T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
314 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 311 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LIBERTY...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

  THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.

  HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 80 MPH WIND GUSTS.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...LARGE TREE BRANCHES MAY BE BROKEN...POSSIBLY BLOCKING
           ROADS AND DOWNING POWER LINES. SUBSTANTIAL ROOF COVERING
           DAMAGE LIKELY. METAL OUTBUILDINGS DAMAGED. SIGNIFICANT
           FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS FOR ANYONE EXPOSED TO THE
           ELEMENTS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3729 9560 3700 9561 3700 9578 3728 9578
TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 278DEG 35KT 3712 9557

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...80 MPH

$$

PEARCE

1 follow-up statement

006 
WWUS53 KICT 072027
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
327 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

KSC125-072037-
/O.EXP.KICT.SV.W.0178.000000T0000Z-120907T2030Z/
MONTGOMERY KS-
327 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 330 PM CDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3729 9560 3700 9561 3700 9578 3728 9578
TIME...MOT...LOC 2027Z 278DEG 35KT 3710 9541

$$

BILLINGS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman, Reno	28 min
Sep 6, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	29 min
Sep 7, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	23 min
Sep 7, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	34 min
Sep 7, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	27 min
Sep 7, 7:26 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 11 more	11 hr
Sep 7, 10:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	40 min
Sep 7, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson, Saline	31 min
Sep 7, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	33 min
Sep 7, 1:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	37 min
Sep 7, 1:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	37 min
Sep 7, 1:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	24 min
Sep 7, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	33 min
Sep 7, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	37 min
Sep 7, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	29 min
Sep 7, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	25 min
Sep 7, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	35 min
Sep 7, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	28 min
Sep 7, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	35 min
Sep 7, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	48 min
Sep 7, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	41 min
Sep 7, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	36 min
Sep 7, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson	28 min
Sep 7, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	24 min
Sep 7, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	30 min
Sep 7, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	23 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.