Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 9:10 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 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 KIRKWOOD/ELDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| Jul 2, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 63 min |
| Jul 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 69 min |
| Jul 2, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 65 min |
| Jul 2, 11:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 68 min |
| Jul 3, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 5:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 4 hr |
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.