Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2021, 3:55 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 6 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
- Aug 12, 2021, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2021, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 4:51 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Sw Lincoln, KS | POWER POLE SNAPPED. |
| Aug 12, 4:51 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Sw Lincoln, KS | POWER POLE SNAPPED 5 MILES WEST AND 4 MILES SOUTH OF LINCOLN KANSAS. |
| Aug 12, 4:56 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 E Lincoln, KS | UPS TRUCK BLOWN OVER NEAR HIGHWAY 14 JUST EAST OF LINCOLN. |
| Aug 12, 4:56 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lincoln, KS | UPS TRUCK BLOWN OVER NEAR HWY 14 EAST OF LINCOLN. DRIVER EXTRACTED. REPORTED INJURED TAKEN IN AMBULANCE. |
| Aug 12, 4:57 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 75 | Sylvan Grove, KS | |
| Aug 12, 5:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Sylvan Grove, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted.
045
WUUS53 KICT 122055
SVRICT
KSC105-122200-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0123.210812T2055Z-210812T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Wichita KS
355 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Lincoln County in central Kansas...
* Until 500 PM CDT.
* At 355 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles west of
Lincoln, moving west at 5 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Lincoln and Sylvan Grove.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3921 9816 3900 9805 3892 9839 3913 9846
TIME...MOT...LOC 2055Z 091DEG 6KT 3906 9827
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
BUTLER1 follow-up statement
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WWUS53 KICT 122117
SVSICT
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
417 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
KSC105-122200-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0123.000000T0000Z-210812T2200Z/
Lincoln KS-
417 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...
At 416 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Sylvan Grove,
or 9 miles west of Lincoln, and is nearly stationary.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Lincoln and Sylvan Grove.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3921 9816 3900 9805 3892 9839 3913 9846
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 091DEG 6KT 3906 9832
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 4:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 4:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 15 min |
| Aug 12, 4:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Aug 12, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 55 min |
| Aug 12, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 42 min |
| Aug 12, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 44 min |
| Aug 12, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Rice | 35 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.