Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 20, 2012, 3:05 PM CST for Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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
- Feb 20, 2012, 3:05 PM CST (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2012, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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 20, 3:14 PM CST | HAIL 0.88 | Harper, KS |
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 20, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 430 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 464 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS53 KICT 202105
SVRICT
KSC077-095-202130-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0004.120220T2105Z-120220T2130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
305 PM CST MON FEB 20 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 330 PM CST
* AT 301 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARPER...OR 7
MILES NORTHWEST OF ANTHONY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARPER...NORWICH...RAGO...DANVILLE...RUNNYMEDE AND MURDOCK.
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 3713 9809 3727 9824 3757 9804 3765 9781
3724 9781
TIME...MOT...LOC 2105Z 228DEG 36KT 3726 9808
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$
JAKUB1 follow-up statement
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WWUS53 KICT 202114
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
314 PM CST MON FEB 20 2012
KSC077-095-202130-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120220T2130Z/
KINGMAN KS-HARPER KS-
314 PM CST MON FEB 20 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN
HARPER AND SOUTHEASTERN KINGMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CST...
AT 311 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARPER...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF ANTHONY...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORWICH AND MURDOCK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 3717 9801 3737 9815 3757 9804 3765 9781
3724 9781
TIME...MOT...LOC 2115Z 229DEG 40KT 3735 9794
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$
JAKUBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 44 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.