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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2021, 5:05 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 5:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 7 Sw Hunter, KS | A FEW STONES UP TO PING PONG BALL SIZE. |
| Aug 12, 5:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 7 Wnw Ash Grove, KS | |
| Aug 12, 5:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 W Sylvan Grove, KS | TREE BLOWN DOWN 3 MILES WEST OF SYLVAN GROVE. |
| Aug 12, 5:41 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | 15 Wnw Lincoln, KS | |
| Aug 12, 5:41 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 15 Wnw Lincoln, KS | |
| Aug 12, 5:59 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Lucas, KS | REPORT CAME IN VIA FACEBOOK. |
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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.
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WUUS53 KICT 122205
SVRICT
KSC105-167-122300-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0125.210812T2205Z-210812T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Wichita KS
505 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Lincoln County in central Kansas...
Northeastern Russell County in central Kansas...
* Until 600 PM CDT.
* At 505 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Lincoln to 7 miles northeast of Russell, moving
east at 5 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Lincoln, Lucas, Sylvan Grove, Luray, Bunker Hill, Waldo, Ash Grove,
Wilson State Park and Wilson Lake.
This includes Interstate 70 between Mile Markers 189 and 193.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3922 9807 3891 9806 3885 9878 3913 9891
3913 9849 3922 9849
TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 274DEG 13KT 3903 9809 3893 9872
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
463
WWUS53 KICT 122229
SVSICT
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
529 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
KSC105-167-122300-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0125.000000T0000Z-210812T2300Z/
Lincoln KS-Russell KS-
529 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR LINCOLN AND NORTHEASTERN RUSSELL COUNTIES...
At 528 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lucas, or 16
miles north of Wilson, and is nearly stationary.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Lincoln, Lucas, Sylvan Grove, Luray, Bunker Hill, Waldo, Ash Grove,
Wilson State Park and Wilson Lake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3922 9807 3891 9806 3885 9878 3913 9891
3913 9849 3922 9849
TIME...MOT...LOC 2228Z 331DEG 1KT 3907 9846
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 65 min |
| 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, 5:18 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.