Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- May 19, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:23 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 N Sterling, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 750 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
233
WUUS53 KICT 192321
SVRICT
KSC159-200000-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0093.120519T2321Z-120520T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
621 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 619 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LYONS...AND
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GENESEO AND LITTLE RIVER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3852 9819 3852 9793 3829 9792 3826 9793
3826 9792 3824 9792 3820 9829 3845 9833
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 248DEG 28KT 3836 9820
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
COOK1 follow-up statement
582
WWUS53 KICT 192357
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
657 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
KSC159-200007-
/O.EXP.KICT.SV.W.0093.000000T0000Z-120520T0000Z/
RICE KS-
657 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN RICE COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 700 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 3852 9819 3852 9793 3829 9792 3826 9793
3826 9792 3824 9792 3820 9829 3845 9833
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 248DEG 28KT 3846 9787
$$
LAWSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 34 min |
| May 19, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 43 min |
| May 19, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 44 min |
| May 19, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 44 min |
| May 19, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 39 min |
| May 19, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 36 min |
| May 19, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 28 min |
| May 19, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 29 min |
| May 19, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 32 min |
| May 19, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 33 min |
| May 19, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 47 min |
| May 19, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 26 min |
| May 19, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 30 min |
| May 19, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 33 min |
| May 19, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Saline | 35 min |
| May 19, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 36 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.