Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

Jul 8, 1995, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)

Expired

Jul 8, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Butler County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WUUS1 KICT 090112 RRA
SVRICT
KSC015-090145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
810 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY
 
...THIS WARNING WILL REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR ALL OF BUTLER
COUNTY WHICH EXPIRES AT 815 PM...
 
AT 807 PM...HAM SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF
AUGUSTA...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EL DORADO.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH AND WILL REACH DOUGLAS BY 830 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF YOU
ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
KIRKWOOD
&

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 8, 3:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
343 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995

BNDRY HAS SLOWED SE MVMT WITH APCH WK S/W TO THE NW. AT 18Z SFC LO
WAS LOC OVR XTRM SE NE WITH SFC BNDRY XTNGD TO NR GBD.  ERLR CU/AC
HAS DISPTD WITH INCRG MIDLVL TMPS.  ETA FCST OF H7 TEMPS OF 12 ALNG
MO BRDR WOULD HINT AT EDGE OF CAP.  TSTMS HV CONT ALL DAY OVER MAINLY
THE ERN 2 ROWS OF COUNTIES.

TRICKY FCST WITH CAP DETERMINING WWRD PROPAGATION OF TSTMS TNGT.
WITH INCRG CONVERGENCE ALNG FNT...POOLING 850 MB DWPTS...DIFFLUENT
FLOW ALF...AND WK S/WV...THINK TSTMS ARE PSBL ANYWHERE ALG AND E OF
FLINT HILLS. WITH ADAP LIS NOW IN THE NEG DOUBLE DIGITS...AND
MODIFIED 12Z SNDGS INDCG CAPES IN THE 2000+ RNG... THINK SOME OF THE
STORMS COULD GET FRISKY TNGT.  APRS TSTMS SHUD BE ON THE WANE BY
DAYBREAK...WITH CLDS DIMINISHG AS HI PRES BUILDS INTO CEN KS TMRW.
WARMER AND SUNNY DAY IN STORE FOR TMRW.

RSL 65/104 --   SLN 65/103 1-
ICT 65/102 1-   HUT 656/104 --
CNU 68/99  4-

HOWERTON

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.