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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2025, 2:16 AM CDT for Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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 24, 2025, 2:16 AM CDT (07:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1054 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 24, 12:08 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 12:08 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 9:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Wichita KS 955 PM CDT Fri May 23 2025 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-241930- 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- 955 PM CDT Fri May 23 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Central Kansas, South Central Kansas and Southeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Tonight Thunderstorms are expected to impact much of the area late tonight. Some of these storms could become severe with golf ball size hail and heavy rain. There may also be a threat for damaging winds. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday An active weather pattern is expected to bring multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms to the region for this weekend through Monday. There is a risk for severe weather Saturday night with the primary hazards being large hail and damaging winds. In addition, the prolonged period of showers and thunderstorms could bring heavy rainfall to the region and cause some flooding problems to occur. Please refer to the Flood Watch for additional details. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated this afternoon or tonight. && For a graphical version of this information, see our webpage at: https://www.weather.gov/erh/ghwo?wfo=ict
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 29 min |
| May 24, 2:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 8 hr |
| May 24, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 54 min |
| May 24, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 20 min |
| May 24, 3:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 8 hr |
| May 24, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 47 min |
| May 24, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 60 min |
| May 24, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 57 min |
| May 24, 5:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 6 hr |
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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.