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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Wichita, KS

July 2, 1995Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 6:35 PM CDT for Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1995, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cowley County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1995-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1995-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-285 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1087 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Jul 2, 3:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
328 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995

17Z SFC MAP SHOWS LEE TROF...THEN TO THE EAST HI PRES...WITH LGT SLY
FLO OVR US. CLDS CONT TO BLANKET MOST OF CWA. THIS SHD INHIBIT SGFNT
SFC HTG NEEDED TO DESTABILIZE ATMOSPHERE FOR TSTM DVLPMT. AFTER
MODIFYING MRNG SOUNDINGS TO CURRENT TEMP TREND...LIS APCH -1 AND
CAPES APCH 1000.  WITH LIS THIS LOW NEED A GOOD LFTG MECHANISM.
LOOKING AT 18Z ADAP PRODUCTS MAJORITY OF MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE
LOCATED IN WRN KS. THIS LKS TO BE THE FOCUS FOR TSTM ACTIVITY THIS
AFTN. STMS SHD MOV EWD TNGT AND WITH H8 MSTR IN PLACE ALG WITH WRM
AIR ADVTN. HWVR...DO NOT SEE ANY STG UPR LVL DYNAMICS MOVG INTO OUR
CWA TNGT.^ BECAUSE OF THIS TSTMS SHD BE MORE OF THE SCT VARIETY.
DUE TO ABV REASONS HAVE BACKED OFF POPS FOR TMRW.

RSL 60/79 33  SLN 60/79 33
ICT 61/78 33  HUT 60/77 33
CNU 60/78 33

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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.