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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Wichita, KS

July 3, 1995Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 10:10 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 1995, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1995, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 3, 4:01 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 4:01 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	68 min
Jul 3, 8:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Saline	69 min
Jul 3, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	62 min
Jul 3, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	59 min
Jul 3, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	63 min
Jul 3, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	35 min
Jul 3, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	69 min
Jul 3, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	36 min
Jul 4, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno	56 min
Jul 4, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	58 min
Jul 4, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	56 min
Jul 4, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	64 min
Jul 4, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	64 min
Jul 4, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	34 min
Jul 4, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	56 min
Jul 4, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	61 min
Jul 4, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	62 min
Jul 4, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	64 min
Jul 4, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	56 min
Jul 4, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Bourbon, Crawford	59 min
Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	60 min
Jul 4, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995 Every 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.