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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Wichita, KS

April 13, 2012Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2012, 4:49 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 13, 2012, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2012, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Labette County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 13, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 606 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 711 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

331 
WUUS53 KICT 132149
SVRICT
KSC099-132215-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0040.120413T2149Z-120413T2215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
449 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 448 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHETOPA...
  AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CHETOPA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3699 9508 3700 9524 3705 9526 3716 9507
      3716 9506 3707 9506 3700 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 230DEG 24KT 3702 9510

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50 MPH

$$

JAKUB

2 follow-up statements

144 
WWUS53 KICT 132200
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
500 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

KSC099-132215-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-120413T2215Z/
LABETTE KS-
500 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
LABETTE COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

AT 457 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHETOPA...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3699 9508 3700 9521 3706 9520 3713 9508
      3707 9506 3700 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 228DEG 33KT 3706 9502

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50 MPH

$$

SMITH

624 
WWUS53 KICT 132207
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
507 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

KSC099-132218-
/O.EXP.KICT.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-120413T2215Z/
LABETTE KS-
507 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LABETTE COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT...

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

LAT...LON 3699 9508 3700 9521 3706 9520 3713 9508
      3707 9506 3700 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 2208Z 228DEG 33KT 3711 9495

$$

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	23 min
Apr 13, 12:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	21 min
Apr 13, 3:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	36 min
Apr 13, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	42 min
Apr 13, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	45 min
Apr 13, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	33 min
Apr 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	45 min
Apr 13, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	42 min
Apr 13, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	41 min
Apr 13, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	45 min
Apr 13, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	43 min
Apr 13, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	48 min
Apr 13, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	40 min
Apr 13, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	39 min
Apr 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	45 min
Apr 13, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	50 min
Apr 13, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	51 min
Apr 13, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	42 min
Apr 13, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	54 min
Apr 13, 6:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	38 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.