Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 11:25 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, 9:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 9:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 925 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ONGOING SVR STMS ARE OCCURRING IN MAX MSTR CNVRGNCE AND INSTABILITY AHEAD OF A WK S/W SEEN IN W/V IMAGRY. MDLS MVE THIS S/W THROUGH SE KS OVERNIGHT THUS SVR TREND CONTS SCEN AND ESPLY SE KS. RSL 60/79 42 SLN 62/80 34 ICT 63/80 34 HUT 62/80 34 CNU 64/80 54 OGREN
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, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 65 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, 11:59 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 |
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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.