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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Wichita, KS

June 9, 1995McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 9:57 AM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1995, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1995, 10:44 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County McPherson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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 1995-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 330 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 1995-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 535 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
330 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
535 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
580 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.3

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The text

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

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 Jun 9, 4:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 4:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman54 min
Jun 8, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno66 min
Jun 8, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick66 min
Jun 8, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner59 min
Jun 8, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner56 min
Jun 8, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler67 min
Jun 8, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley63 min
Jun 8, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner45 min
Jun 8, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Elk62 min
Jun 8, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery51 min
Jun 8, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.