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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS

April 10, 1995Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 1:34 AM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 1995, 1:34 AM CDT (06:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1995, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Rice County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 100635 RRA
SVRICT
KSC159-100715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
134 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...RICE COUNTY
 
AT 135 AM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF
LYONS...OR 20 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40
MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITIES OF LYONS AND CHASE SHOULD BE
PREPARED FOR HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ON.E INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF YOU
ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

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 Apr 9, 3:56 PM CDT, 9 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 3:56 PM CDT, 9 hours 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
355 PM CDT SUN APR 9 1995

MESSY PATN OVR AREA WITH QUASI-STNRY FNT FM LO NW OF CNU TO NR
OKC.  STG CAP AS INDC ON 12Z UMN SNDG SUGG TSTMS WL HV DIFFICULT
TIME FORMING IN CLR AREA AHD OF FNT.  LO CLDS OVR MOST SXNS HV
KEPT TEMPS IN THE 40S AND 50S...ALTHO EXTRM SE KS NR 80.  WOULD
EXPCT PCPN TO BRK OUT LT TNGT...AFT MIDNGT...AS UPR SYS APCHS.
NGM SOMEWHAT SLOER THAN ETA...BUT NET EFFECT ON ICT CWA NOT THAT
GREAT.  ETA GRIDDED DATA SUGG SIGFNT OVERRUNNING BY TMRW AM.
TRICKY PART IS HOW FAR W AND N SFC BNDRY WILL RETREAT GIVEN
STRONG SRLY FLOW.  WL KEEP BNDRY FARTHER S THAN MDLS...GIVEN STG
WAA AND TEMP CONTRAST...THINKING MOST OF THE WRM AIR WL BE LIFTED
OVR BNDRY.  BEST DYNAMICS NOT EXPCTD TIL TMRW AS LO WINDS UP.
EXPCT PCPN TO GRADUALLY TAPER OFF AS CAA WORKS ARND UPR LO...BUT
THAT SHUD BE IN THE 3RD PD.  FWC BACKS POPS OFF TMRW AS IT PUNCHS
A STG DRY SLOT INTO ICT AREA TMRW AM.  NOT THAT CONFIDENT OF THE
TIMING AND LOC.

RSL 42/45 77  SLN 43/46  77
ICT 48/58 87  HUT 46/53  87
CNU 58/66 78

HOWERTON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 1:00 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

KSZ051-052-100700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
100 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995

AT 100 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR FROM 10-15
MILES EAST OF MCPHERSON. THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF 1/2 INCH HAIL AND
TORRENTIAL RAINS AS THEY MOVED RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

THE STORMS WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF MARION OR NEAR DURHAM BY 110 AM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
AND BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER.

*SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #168 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM FOR ALL BUT
RUSSELL AND BARTON COUNTIES.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	29 min
Apr 10, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	32 min
Apr 10, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	19 min
Apr 10, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	20 min
Apr 10, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	49 min
Apr 10, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	35 min
Apr 10, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	15 min
Apr 10, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	28 min
Apr 10, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cherokee	18 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.