Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 29, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2012, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 8:49 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 1 S Park City, KS | SPOTTER REPORTS THAT HAIL WAS COVERING THE ROAD. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
076
WUUS53 KICT 300130
SVRICT
KSC173-300230-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0030.120330T0130Z-120330T0230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
830 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 825 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL
SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PARK CITY...OR 7 MILES
NORTH OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KECHI.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 135 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 13 AND 19.
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 3787 9716 3778 9715 3776 9743 3779 9741
3786 9733
TIME...MOT...LOC 0131Z 264DEG 14KT 3779 9732
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.50IN
$$
KETCHAM1 follow-up statement
833
WWUS53 KICT 300206
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
906 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012
KSC173-300230-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0030.000000T0000Z-120330T0230Z/
SEDGWICK KS-
906 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN
SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CDT...
AT 903 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTHEAST WICHITA...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST
OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 135 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 13 AND 15.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE
HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE
TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3776 9740 3779 9739 3783 9728 3784 9716
3778 9715
TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 264DEG 14KT 3779 9723
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.50IN
$$
KETCHAMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Mar 29, 8:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 36 min |
| Mar 29, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 59 min |
| Mar 29, 9:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 11:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:58 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice, Russell | 6 hr |
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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.