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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 9:54 PM CDT for Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1995, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1995, 10:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elk County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 2725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 25, 3:11 PM CDT, 6 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:11 PM CDT, 6 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 310 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995 NO SIGNIF CHANGES... 18Z SFC MAP INDCTS TROF/WK DRYLINE OVR WRN KS. VRY HI DWPTS OVR ERN 1/2 KS W/ ICT DWPT 75 DEG. CDFNT STILL BACK UP OVR NRN NE W/ LO PRES OVR SERN SD. CURRNT 88D DEPICTS SCT RW/TRW OVR N CENT KS GENL MOVG EAST. MEAN FLOW WILL SHOULD MOVE THIS ESE. FOR THIS EVENING AND OVERNITE...UA TROF OVR PLAINS STATES NEXT 24 HRS. GRIDD DATA: 500MB DEPICTS DECENT SHTWV AND COLD POCKET OF -12 OVR ERN KS/WRN MO. 700MB DEPICTS DECENT DRYING OVRNITE ADDING TO DESTABLIZATION. 850MB RH INCR TO 12C+ TONITE W/ SSW FLOW. THEREFORE THINK PCPN WILL START SOMETIME DURING THE EARLY EVENING HRS WITH GOOD POTENTIAL FOR OVRNITE TRW. WITH WBZ AROUND 10K FT AND SLIGHTLY HIER...WOULD EXPECT SVR THREAT TO BE MAINLY WNDS. FOR TEMPS TMRW DECIDED TO GO BASICALLY W/ FWC AS WITH MOISTURE MOVING EAST AND STRONG WAA ALOFT...SHOULD BEGIN ANOTHER TREND TOWARDr DRY AND HOT. RSL 68/100 40 SLN 68/100 40 ICT 72/100 30 HUT 72/100 30 CNU 72/95 42 RENO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 9:34 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 68 min |
| Jul 25, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 55 min |
| Jul 25, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 58 min |
| Jul 25, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 62 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.