Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2012, 5:33 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Apr 14, 2012, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 6:01 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 W Marquette, KS | LARGE WEDGE TORNADO ON GROUND. |
| Apr 14, 6:09 PM CDT | TORNADO | 8 Wsw Assaria, KS | A TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF FALUN. ALSO SEEING DEBRI. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
994
WUUS53 KICT 142233
SVRICT
KSC053-169-142315-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0047.120414T2233Z-120414T2315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
533 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
WESTERN SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 528 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GENESEO...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KANOPOLIS STATE PARK...BROOKVILLE AND KANOPOLIS.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 225 AND 228.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3861 9770 3861 9792 3852 9793 3852 9833
3887 9811 3888 9774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 235DEG 35KT 3852 9814
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...<50 MPH
$$
BILLINGSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 45 min |
| Apr 13, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Wilson | 50 min |
| Apr 13, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 52 min |
| Apr 13, 7:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 9:26 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more | 25 hr |
| Apr 13, 9:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 31 min |
| Apr 13, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 34 min |
| Apr 13, 11:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 12:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 12:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 52 min |
| Apr 14, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 4:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 50 min |
| Apr 14, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 1:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 21 min |
| Apr 14, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 17 min |
| Apr 14, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Rice | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 39 min |
| Apr 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 13 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.