Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 11:14 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 11:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellsworth County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 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
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, 10:25 PM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDT, 49 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.
| 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, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 65 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 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
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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.