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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Wichita, KS

July 3, 1995Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 10:48 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 11:23 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rice County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2320 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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 3, 10:25 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1024 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995

...MAIN WX PROBLEM IS WHEN CONVECTION WILL FIRE THIS EVENING...
SFC MAP SHOWS LOW PRES OVER OK PHNDL...WITH APRNT WMFNT ALONG SRN
KS. DWPTS HAVE CREPT UP TO THE LOWER 70S SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY. LTST
PROFILES SHOWING GOOD SPEED SHEAR AND DIRECTIONAL SHEAR AT THE LOWER
LEVELS BUT LITTLE IF ANY SPIN AT THE UPPER LEVELS. DIRECTIONAL SHEAR
AT THE UPPER LEVELS DOES NOT SEEM TO BE AS APPARENT AS LAST NIGHT.
THIS FACTOR ALONG WITH RUC DATA SHOWING 12 DEG C TEMPS AT 700 IS
PUTTING A CAP ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRW AT THIS TIME. ALTHOUGH 88-D
IS SHOWING A BOUNDARY SITTING BETWEEN HUT TO ICT. THIS BOUNDARY ALONG
WITH THE LLJ...DRY PUNCH IN THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWA...AND 500 MB
TROF DIGGING INTO THE PLAINS TONIGHT. THESE FACTORS STILL MAY GIVE US
A GOOD SHOT OF SVR WX. ONCE THESE STORMS GO THEN WE WILL HAVE NOT
PROBLEM KEEPING THEM GOING DUE TO A VERY UNSTABL@E AIR MASS.
RSL 62/83 44    SLN 62/83 44
ICT 65/83 44    HUT 65/83 44
CNU 68/81 46

COX

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline68 min
Jul 3, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSaline69 min
Jul 3, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton62 min
Jul 3, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton59 min
Jul 3, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln65 min
Jul 3, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth63 min
Jul 3, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline69 min
Jul 3, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth36 min
Jul 4, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman, Reno56 min
Jul 4, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice58 min
Jul 4, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth56 min
Jul 4, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Saline64 min
Jul 4, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno64 min
Jul 4, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood34 min
Jul 4, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua56 min
Jul 4, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery61 min
Jul 4, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTNeosho, Wilson62 min
Jul 4, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery64 min
Jul 4, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette56 min
Jul 4, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBourbon, Crawford59 min
Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTNeosho60 min
Jul 4, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningICTNeosho45 min

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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.