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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Wichita, KS

June 17, 2013Butler County, Harvey County, Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2013, 12:57 AM CDT for Butler County, Harvey County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2013, 12:57 AM CDT (05:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2013, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 16, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1392 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 17, 12:46 AM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 12:46 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 9:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
943 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-180245-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
943 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SURGE SOUTHEAST OVER MOST OF
THE AREA LATE TONIGHT WITH DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 70 MPH THE
PRIMARY THREAT.

A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE
NIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS
MONDAY MORNING WITH GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

MEANWHILE...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST
KANSAS DUE TO SATURATED SOILS FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL.

ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST ON WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY...A FEW WHICH MAY PRODUCE NICKEL-SIZED HAIL AND GUSTS
AROUND 55 MPH.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH
CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT
(LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

ES/MWM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 11:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 12:16 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 17, 12:26 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 12:30 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 12:50 AM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 12:54 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	44 min
Jun 16, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	48 min
Jun 16, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	58 min
Jun 16, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	54 min
Jun 16, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	60 min
Jun 16, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno	59 min
Jun 16, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	66 min
Jun 17, 12:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	5 hr
Jun 17, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	65 min
Jun 17, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Reno, Rice	56 min
Jun 17, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	49 min
Jun 17, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	67 min
Jun 17, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	56 min
Jun 17, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Cowley	59 min
Jun 17, 2:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.