Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

Jul 4, 1995, 12:56 AM CDT (05:56 UTC)

Expired

Jul 4, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT

In force

64 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Kingman County, KS, Reno County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 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.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 040556 RRA
SVRICT
KSC113-169-095-155-040700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1256 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...MCPHERSON COUNTY...SALINE COUNTY
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...KINGMAN COUNTY...RENO COUNTY
 
AT 1253 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STORMS EXTENDING FROM 20
MILES WEST OF SALINA TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE. THIS LINE
OF STORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH KINGMAN AND
HUTCHINSON BY 115 AM...AND MCPHERSON AND SALINA BY 130 AM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN
`EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF YOU
ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
COX

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.