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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Wichita, KS

May 14, 2023Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2023, 3:05 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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: May 14, 2023, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2023, 3:23 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 8.1 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: 175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 13, 6:31 PM CDT, 20 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:31 PM CDT, 20 hours 34 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
May 13, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	47 min
May 14, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	44 min
May 14, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	54 min
May 14, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	50 min
May 14, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Greenwood	51 min
May 14, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	40 min
May 14, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Greenwood	36 min
May 14, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	34 min
May 14, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	32 min
May 14, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	28 min
May 14, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	32 min
May 14, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	32 min
May 14, 4:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	29 min
May 14, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	25 min
May 14, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	26 min
May 14, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	30 min
May 14, 6:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	4 hr
May 14, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	30 min
May 14, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	37 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.