Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2012, 9:41 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2012, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 9:48 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Winfield, KS | NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. |
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 |
| May 19, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
274
WUUS53 KICT 200241
SVRICT
KSC035-200315-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0099.120520T0241Z-120520T0315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
941 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 939 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WINFIELD...
AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER 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...
WINFIELD...BURDEN...DEXTER AND CAMBRIDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3745 9667 3717 9661 3714 9713 3735 9712
TIME...MOT...LOC 0242Z 261DEG 31KT 3725 9701
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
LAWSON2 follow-up statements
741
WWUS53 KICT 200252
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
952 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
KSC035-200315-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0099.000000T0000Z-120520T0315Z/
COWLEY KS-
952 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL COWLEY
COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM CDT...
AT 948 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WINFIELD...AND
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DEXTER...BURDEN AND CAMBRIDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3745 9667 3717 9661 3714 9713 3735 9712
TIME...MOT...LOC 0252Z 252DEG 25KT 3728 9694
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
LAWSON368 WWUS53 KICT 200309 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1009 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012 KSC035-200319- /O.EXP.KICT.SV.W.0099.000000T0000Z-120520T0315Z/ COWLEY KS- 1009 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL COWLEY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1015 PM CDT... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. LAT...LON 3745 9667 3717 9661 3714 9713 3735 9712 TIME...MOT...LOC 0309Z 252DEG 25KT 3732 9680 $$ LAWSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 46 min |
| May 19, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| May 19, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 37 min |
| May 19, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| May 19, 8:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 25 min |
| May 19, 8:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 35 min |
| May 19, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 46 min |
| May 19, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 39 min |
| May 19, 9:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 28 min |
| May 19, 9:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 28 min |
| May 19, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 28 min |
| May 19, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 28 min |
| May 19, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 34 min |
| May 19, 10:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 24 min |
| May 19, 11:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 27 min |
| May 20, 12:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 29 min |
| May 20, 12:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 60 min |
| May 20, 12:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Neosho | 59 min |
| May 20, 1:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 30 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.