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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Wichita, KS

July 3, 1995Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 12:22 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 12:22 AM CDT (05:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Montgomery County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 213 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 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
213 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 9:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley62 min
Jul 2, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley40 min
Jul 2, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler63 min
Jul 2, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley60 min
Jul 2, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler65 min
Jul 2, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley61 min
Jul 2, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua69 min
Jul 2, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley60 min
Jul 2, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Elk64 min
Jul 2, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley65 min
Jul 2, 11:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley3 hr
Jul 3, 12:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley65 min
Jul 3, 3:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley3 hr
Jul 3, 5:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Elk30 min
Jul 3, 5:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley4 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.