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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2015, 3:13 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 12, 2015, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Labette County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1078 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 12, 1:13 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 1:13 PM CDT, 2 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 2:29 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 229 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 2015 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-131930- 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- 229 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE DURING THE NIGHT...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ANTICIPATED. CHECK THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR DETAILS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG OR SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ROUGHLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM HARPER...TO ELDORADO TO EUREKA. THIS INCLUDES ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE THREAT INCREASES TO THE SOUTHEAST...AND IS HIGHEST ACROSS LABETTE COUNTY. THE THREATS ARE ONE INCH HAIL AND WINDS TO 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR ALL AREAS FROM SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND FOR AREAS PRIMARILY ALONG AND EAST OF I-135 ON THURSDAY. VERY HEAVY RAINS REMAIN LIKELY...ESPECIALLY FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND PART OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE ONE INCH HAIL AND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE THREAT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 8:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 9:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 12:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 9 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more | 48 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 3:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 40 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 33 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.