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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Wichita, KS

May 25, 2025Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2025, 5:47 AM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2025, 5:47 AM CDT (10:47 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2025, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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 25, 3:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 5:41 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 12:26 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Wichita KS
1226 AM CDT Sun May 25 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1209 AM     Hail             Anthony                 37.15N 98.03W
05/25/2025  E1.00 Inch       Harper             KS   Public

&&

CDJ

Local storm report, May 25, 2:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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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 24, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	52 min
May 25, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	34 min
May 25, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	38 min
May 25, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick	29 min
May 25, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	26 min
May 25, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood	16 min
May 25, 5:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	4 hr
May 25, 5:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	4 hr
May 25, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno	76 min
May 25, 9:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Harvey, McPherson, Marion	4 hr

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.