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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Wichita, KS

May 17, 1995Harper County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Harper County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
319 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

CHGS: NONE MJR.

WSR-88D DETECTING COLD FNTL BNDRY (BASED ON TEMP DISCONTINUITY) XTNDG FM
NR P28-EMP W/ SE20 MVMT. BNDRY APRCHG VRY MOIST UNSTBL AMS W/ LI'S -2 TO
-4 PRVLNT ACRS XTRM SC & SE SXNS. APRD GRTST THREAT FOR SVR OVR SE SXN
WHR BOTH GRIDS INDCTD SW35-40 KTS FLO W/ DWPTS >60F @ H85 RMNG OVR THIS
RGN. THIS CMBND W/ BEING IN CLSR PRXMTY TO 90-100KT H2 SPD MAX SHUD KP
GRTST THREAT SVR THIS RGN. GRNDS ALRDY SOAKED FM PREV RNS SO KPG FFA IN
EFCT IN ORDER. TEMPS LK OK FOR NOW.

RSL 43/58 84  SLN 45/60 84
ICT 53/65 84  HUT 48/62 84
CNU 55/62 +6
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 11:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>073-082-083-091>101-180500-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
1139 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS:

BARTON      COWLEY      HARVEY      MARION      RENO     SEDGWICK
BUTLER      ELLSWORTH   KINGMAN     MC PHERSON  RUSSELL  SUMNER
CHASE       HARPER      LINCOLN     RICE        SALINE

AND IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS:

ALLEN       CHEROKEE    GREENWOOD    NEOSHO
BOURBON     CRAWFORD    LABETTE      WILSON
CHAUTAUQUA  ELK         MONTGOMERY   WOODSON

SYNOPSIS:

A INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON
IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST TOWARDS THE ARKANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER BY TONIGHT.
THIS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL TRIGGER MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF
THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHEAST
KANSAS WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. ALTHOUGH THE MAIN
THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE FLOODING ALONG AREA RIVERS ACROSS
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. ACROSS CENTRAL
KANSAS REPORTS OF 2 INCHES OF RAIN OR MORE ARE REQUESTED.

COX

Special weather statement, May 17, 11:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>073-082-083-091>101-180500-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS                      WORDING
1142 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS:

BARTON      COWLEY      HARVEY      MARION      RENO     SEDGWICK
BUTLER      ELLSWORTH   KINGMAN     MC PHERSON  RUSSELL  SUMNER
CHASE       HARPER      LINCOLN     RICE        SALINE

AND IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS:

ALLEN       CHEROKEE    GREENWOOD    NEOSHO
BOURBON     CRAWFORD    LABETTE      WILSON
CHAUTAUQUA  ELK         MONTGOMERY   WOODSON

SYNOPSIS:

A INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON
IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST TOWARDS THE ARKANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER BY TONIGHT.
THIS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL TRIGGER MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF
THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHEAST
KANSAS WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. ALTHOUGH THE MAIN
THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE FLOODING ALONG AREA RIVERS ACROSS
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. ACROSS CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS REPORTS OF 2 INCHES OF RAIN OR MORE ARE REQUESTED.

COX

Special weather statement, May 17, 1:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

KSZ071>073-095>097-099>101-171905-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
103 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #419 HAS EXPIRED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #419 ISSUED THIS MORNING FOR ALL OF
SOUTHEAST KANSAS HAS EXPIRED. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE TO TRAVERSE THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON WITH HEAVY RAINS LIKELY.
THEREFORE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
ES

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, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	35 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, 5:31 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.