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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS

April 15, 2023Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2023, 12:28 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 15, 2023, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2023, 12:54 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1318 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Apr 14, 6:51 PM CDT, 17 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 6:51 PM CDT, 17 hours 37 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
Apr 14, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	27 min
Apr 14, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	39 min
Apr 14, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	31 min
Apr 14, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	40 min
Apr 14, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	16 min
Apr 14, 7:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	14 min
Apr 14, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	33 min
Apr 14, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	45 min
Apr 14, 8:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	54 min
Apr 14, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	66 min
Apr 14, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	30 min
Apr 14, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	56 min
Apr 14, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	53 min
Apr 14, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Saline	55 min
Apr 14, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	64 min
Apr 14, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	62 min
Apr 14, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	59 min
Apr 14, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	52 min
Apr 14, 11:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	52 min
Apr 14, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	50 min
Apr 14, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	43 min
Apr 14, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	31 min
Apr 15, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson, Marion	41 min
Apr 15, 12:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	47 min
Apr 15, 12:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, Marion	35 min
Apr 15, 1:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, Marion	65 min
Apr 15, 2:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Harvey	67 min
Apr 15, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson	65 min
Apr 15, 11:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	41 min
Apr 15, 11:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	37 min
Apr 15, 11:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	47 min
Apr 15, 12:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	43 min
Apr 15, 12:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	26 min
Apr 15, 12:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	35 min
Apr 15, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	25 min
Apr 15, 1:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	23 min
Apr 15, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	32 min
Apr 15, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.