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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Wichita, KS

May 17, 1995Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 6:41 AM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 6:41 AM CDT (11:41 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 7:16 AM CDT
In force: 35 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 11:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.8

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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 May 17, 5:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 5:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
502 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...FCST PROBLEM IS TRW AND EXCESSIVE RAIN...

TRW IS CONTINUING ALONG AND NORTH OF A E-W BNDRY ACRS CEN KS. WL GO
AHEAD AND KEEP LIKELY POPS TDY ALL ZNS.

A QUICK LOOK AT THE MDLS SHOW THAT THE MAIN EVENT IS YET TO COME.
AGAIN...FLOODING WL BE A PROBLEM ESPLY ACRS CEN KS WHERE 3-5 INCH RAINS
HAVE OCCURRED OVERNIGHT. FOR LACK OF TIME HAVE LEFT TEMPS ALONE.

RSL 61/43 88  SLN 62/43 88
ICT 70/50 88  HUT 70/50 88
CNU 70/50 78

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 5:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
525 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....LOCATION.....      STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
05/17/95
005O       GORHAM                  KS     GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND 80 MPH
           RUSSELL CO.                    WINDS.

0143       5 W SYLVAN GROVE        KS     80 MPH WINDS AND 3/4 INCH
           LINCOLN CO.                    HAIL.

0145       LINCOLN                 KS     70 MPH WINDS.
           LINCOLN CO.

0219       3 N ALBERT              KS     ONE INCH HAIL.
           BARTON CO.

0235       3 W HOISINGTON          KS     GOLFBALL HAIL.
           BARTON CO.

0259       BUSHTON                 KS     rQUARTER SIZE HAIL.
           RICE CO.

0328       WINDOM                  KS     QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
           MCPHERSON CO.

0335       MCPHERSON               KS     QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
           MCPHERSON CO.

.END

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	24 min
May 16, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	60 min
May 16, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	17 min
May 16, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	58 min
May 16, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	21 min
May 16, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	43 min
May 16, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	27 min
May 16, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	56 min
May 17, 12:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	6 hr
May 17, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	44 min
May 17, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	46 min
May 17, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	56 min
May 17, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	49 min
May 17, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	51 min
May 17, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	47 min
May 17, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	25 min
May 17, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	30 min
May 17, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	65 min
May 17, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	41 min
May 17, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	69 min
May 17, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	30 min
May 17, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	59 min
May 17, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	61 min
May 17, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	66 min
May 17, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Bourbon	31 min
May 17, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Crawford	63 min

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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.