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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Hastings, NE

July 25, 1995Phillips County, Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 6:01 PM CDT for Phillips County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Phillips County, KS, Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 235 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 223 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton47 min
Jul 24, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton54 min
Jul 24, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDYork39 min
Jul 24, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSmith42 min
Jul 25, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne59 min

Nearby

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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.