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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Wichita, KS

June 2, 2025Harper County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2025, 9:04 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 2, 2025, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2025, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Harper County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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
Jun 2, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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: 3338 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 2, 6:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 6:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 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
Jun 2, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	31 min
Jun 2, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner	20 min
Jun 3, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	20 min
Jun 3, 3:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	28 min
Jun 3, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	46 min
Jun 3, 3:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	38 min
Jun 3, 4:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	34 min
Jun 3, 4:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	42 min
Jun 3, 5:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, Marion	40 min
Jun 3, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Labette	5 days
Jun 3, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	49 hr
Jun 3, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	65 hr
Jun 3, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho	3 days
Jun 3, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	5 days
Jun 3, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	23 min
Jun 3, 10:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion, Reno, Sedgwick	4 hr
Jun 3, 10:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	4 hr
Jun 3, 11:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	4 hr
Jun 3, 11:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	28 min
Jun 3, 11:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	46 min
Jun 3, 11:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Butler, Chase, Marion	4 hr
Jun 3, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	40 min
Jun 3, 12:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	50 min
Jun 3, 12:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood	33 min
Jun 3, 12:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	38 min
Jun 3, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	44 min
Jun 3, 12:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Sedgwick	4 hr
Jun 3, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	27 min
Jun 3, 1:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	ICT	Sedgwick	3 hr
Jun 3, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	36 min
Jun 3, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick, Sumner	41 min
Jun 3, 1:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	ICT	Butler	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	35 min
Jun 3, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	47 min
Jun 3, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	27 min
Jun 3, 3:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	41 hr
Jun 3, 3:17 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	28 hr
Jun 3, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	27 min
Jun 3, 3:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	42 hr
Jun 3, 3:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	53 hr
Jun 3, 3:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	34 hr
Jun 3, 3:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	4 days
Jun 3, 3:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	4 days
Jun 3, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	24 min
Jun 3, 3:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	29 hr
Jun 3, 3:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase	64 hr
Jun 3, 3:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase, Lyon	67 hr
Jun 3, 3:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Marion	7 hr
Jun 3, 3:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	5 hr
Jun 3, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	42 min
Jun 3, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	27 min
Jun 3, 4:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	21 hr
Jun 3, 4:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Greenwood, Woodson	3 hr
Jun 3, 4:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Sedgwick	6 hr
Jun 3, 4:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	6 hr
Jun 3, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk, Montgomery	40 min
Jun 3, 4:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Sedgwick	6 hr
Jun 3, 4:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	64 min
Jun 3, 5:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk	15 hr
Jun 3, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	37 min
Jun 3, 5:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	5 hr
Jun 3, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen, Neosho	46 min
Jun 3, 6:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	3 hr
Jun 3, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	46 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.