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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2025, 2:08 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 28 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 29, 2025, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2025, 2:36 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Allen County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1597 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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 28, 6:49 PM CDT, 19 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 6:49 PM CDT, 19 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 29 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.