Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 8:20 AM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 1995, 8:20 AM CDT (13:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 1995, 8:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 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 13:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 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
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 526 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 723 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 Apr 9, 3:56 PM CDT, 16 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 3:56 PM CDT, 16 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 355 PM CDT SUN APR 9 1995 MESSY PATN OVR AREA WITH QUASI-STNRY FNT FM LO NW OF CNU TO NR OKC. STG CAP AS INDC ON 12Z UMN SNDG SUGG TSTMS WL HV DIFFICULT TIME FORMING IN CLR AREA AHD OF FNT. LO CLDS OVR MOST SXNS HV KEPT TEMPS IN THE 40S AND 50S...ALTHO EXTRM SE KS NR 80. WOULD EXPCT PCPN TO BRK OUT LT TNGT...AFT MIDNGT...AS UPR SYS APCHS. NGM SOMEWHAT SLOER THAN ETA...BUT NET EFFECT ON ICT CWA NOT THAT GREAT. ETA GRIDDED DATA SUGG SIGFNT OVERRUNNING BY TMRW AM. TRICKY PART IS HOW FAR W AND N SFC BNDRY WILL RETREAT GIVEN STRONG SRLY FLOW. WL KEEP BNDRY FARTHER S THAN MDLS...GIVEN STG WAA AND TEMP CONTRAST...THINKING MOST OF THE WRM AIR WL BE LIFTED OVR BNDRY. BEST DYNAMICS NOT EXPCTD TIL TMRW AS LO WINDS UP. EXPCT PCPN TO GRADUALLY TAPER OFF AS CAA WORKS ARND UPR LO...BUT THAT SHUD BE IN THE 3RD PD. FWC BACKS POPS OFF TMRW AS IT PUNCHS A STG DRY SLOT INTO ICT AREA TMRW AM. NOT THAT CONFIDENT OF THE TIMING AND LOC. RSL 42/45 77 SLN 43/46 77 ICT 48/58 87 HUT 46/53 87 CNU 58/66 78 HOWERTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 29 min |
| Apr 10, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 32 min |
| Apr 10, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 19 min |
| Apr 10, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 20 min |
| Apr 10, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 49 min |
| Apr 10, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 8:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 28 min |
| Apr 10, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee | 18 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.