Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1995, 11:44 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 29, 1995, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County McPherson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1956 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 15.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KICT 300444 RRA SVRICT KSC113-300545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1144 PM CDT FRI SEP 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...MCPHERSON COUNTY AT 1143 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF MCPHERSON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL REACH MCPHERSON BY 1150 PM AND GALVA BY 1155 PM. 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 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. COX
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 Sep 29, 4:01 PM CDT, 7 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 4:01 PM CDT, 7 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 400 PM FRI SEP 29 1995 18Z SFC CHART SHOD LO PRES OVR FAR NWRN KS AND AN EXTNDNG TROF TO THE S-SW. WITH DWPTS IN THE 60S AHD OF THE SYS EXPCT A FEW STORMS TO FIRE ALONG AND AHD OF SYS AS IT LIFTS TO THE NE. TIMING MAY BE A CONCRN HERE THO. DID NOT CARE FOR NGM SOLN SO AGRD WITH ETA...HWVR...TIMING REALLY DOESNT KICK IN FOR STORMS UNTIL ARND F18 TO F24. WITH THIS BEING THE CASE...WILL THE DRIER AIR HAVE ALRDY MIXED IN ACRS THE CNTRL AND SC SECS OF CWA. WL HAVE TO WATCH HTG THIS AFT THO AS GUD INSTAB PARAMS SETTING UP...CAPES TO 2200...LIS TO MINUS 9... HI CNVCTV INDEX...THETA E RDG...AND STRONG LLJ IN PLACE. ANOTHR CONCRN IS THE HI WND SPDS...WL THEY HNDR THE VERT EXTENT OF TCU...HV SEEN CASES WHERE WNDS WERE MUCH TO STRONG SO TRW DIDNT FIRE AS PREDCTD. HAVE MVD TRW OUT OF FCAST FOR AFT TO WAIT AND SEE IF THEY FIRE...HAVE LEFT CHC IN FOR TNT AS FEEL WITH ENUF UA SUPRT AND AMPLE MSTR TRW WL FIRE...BUT AM HESITANT TO WORD MAY BE SVR...WUD LV OUT OF FCAST AND UPDT IF NEEDED. AS FOR TEMPS ONGOING FCAST LUKS GUD...DO NOT SEE ANY RSN TO CHANGE. RSL 64/75 53 SLN 63/76 53 ICT 68/84 43 HUT 67/82 43 CNU 65/84 23 CHANCE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Sep 29, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 66 min |
| Sep 30, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Sep 30, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 48 min |
| Sep 30, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 35 min |
| Sep 30, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 41 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.