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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Wichita, KS

May 19, 2025Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2025, 2:01 PM CDT for Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 19, 2025, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2025, 2:47 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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 19, 1:37 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 661 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 406 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 505 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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 19, 1:02 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 1:02 PM CDT, 59 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 18, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	60 min
May 18, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton	23 min
May 18, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	40 min
May 18, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	28 min
May 18, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	ICT	Reno	39 min
May 18, 11:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	ICT	Reno	25 min
May 19, 12:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	ICT	Reno, Rice	27 min
May 19, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Neosho	46 min
May 19, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	47 min
May 19, 3:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	4 hr
May 19, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	61 min
May 19, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Neosho	29 min
May 19, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	16 min
May 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion	31 min
May 19, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	26 min
May 19, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	19 min
May 19, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.