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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2025, 1:44 AM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 10, 2025, 1:44 AM CDT (06:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2025, 2:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2074 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 10, 12:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 12:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Wichita KS 756 PM CDT Sat Aug 9 2025 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-110100- Russell-Lincoln-Barton-Ellsworth-Saline-Rice-McPherson-Marion-Chase- Reno-Harvey-Butler-Greenwood-Woodson-Allen-Kingman-Sedgwick-Harper- Sumner-Cowley-Elk-Wilson-Neosho-Chautauqua-Montgomery-Labette- 756 PM CDT Sat Aug 9 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Central Kansas, South Central Kansas and Southeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Tonight Hit-or-miss thunderstorms are possible tonight with the highest chances over mainly central and east central Kansas. The strongest activity will be capable of dime sized hail, 60 mph winds and locally heavy rain. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Triple digit heat indices remain possible Sunday afternoon over mainly south-central and southeast Kansas. After a modest cool down, triple digit heat indices may return by Thursday of next week. Greater chances for thunderstorms arrive late Sunday afternoon and persist off-and-on through Monday night or Tuesday. The strongest activity will be capable of dime sized hail and 60 mph winds. Additionally, pockets of heavy rainfall and localized flooding are possible. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. && For a graphical version of this information, see our webpage at: https://www.weather.gov/erh/ghwo?wfo=ict
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 10, 12:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 65 min |
| Aug 10, 2:11 AM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 16 more | 32 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 64 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.