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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Wichita, KS

June 25, 2021Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2021, 8:13 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 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: Jun 25, 2021, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2021, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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
Jun 25, 8:53 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 67	2 Wsw Benton, KS	REPORT REPLAYED VIA KWCH METEOROLOGIST.
Jun 25, 8:55 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Benton, KS	EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED 60 MPH WINDS WITH POWER OUTAGES IN THE CITY OF BENTON.

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
Jun 25, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -314 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1286 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

166 
WUUS53 KICT 260113
SVRICT
KSC015-260215-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0093.210626T0113Z-210626T0215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Wichita KS
813 PM CDT Fri Jun 25 2021

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Butler County in south central Kansas...

* Until 915 PM CDT.

* At 813 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Kechi, or
  near Park City, moving east at 40 mph.

  HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to 
           mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.

* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
  Benton and Whitewater around 825 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Towanda and Potwin.

This includes Interstate 35 between Mile Markers 55 and 96.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3767 9715 3809 9715 3809 9653 3769 9653
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 250DEG 35KT 3783 9727 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

KETCHAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Reno, Rice	58 min
Jun 25, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	67 min
Jun 25, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	63 min
Jun 25, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	61 min
Jun 25, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	28 min
Jun 25, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen, Wilson, Woodson	64 min
Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	32 hr
Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Greenwood	55 min
Jun 25, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	52 min
Jun 25, 8:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Marion	6 hr
Jun 25, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	53 min
Jun 25, 9:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	14 hr
Jun 25, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	30 min
Jun 25, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	24 min
Jun 25, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson	63 min
Jun 25, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	45 min
Jun 25, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	68 min
Jun 25, 10:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	62 hr
Jun 25, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	53 min
Jun 25, 10:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Harvey	9 hr
Jun 25, 10:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	65 min
Jun 25, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	47 min
Jun 25, 10:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	57 min
Jun 25, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	58 min
Jun 25, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	66 min
Jun 25, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	43 min
Jun 25, 11:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk, Greenwood	42 min
Jun 26, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson	48 min
Jun 26, 1:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	48 min
Jun 26, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	29 min
Jun 26, 2:06 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	22 hr
Jun 26, 2:06 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	18 hr
Jun 26, 2:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	13 hr
Jun 26, 2:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	18 hr
Jun 26, 2:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	42 hr
Jun 26, 2:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	63 hr
Jun 26, 2:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	3 days
Jun 26, 2:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	17 hr
Jun 26, 2:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	37 hr
Jun 26, 6:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey	33 hr
Jun 26, 11:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	28 hr

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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.