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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Wichita, KS

May 29, 2026Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2026, 10:04 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Russell 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: May 29, 2026, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2026, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 211 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2467 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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 May 29, 5:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 5:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 2:21 PM CDT, 7 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 29, 7:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 29, 9:58 PM CDT, 6 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 29, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice	47 min
May 29, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	30 min
May 30, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	54 min
May 30, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood, Wilson	43 min
May 30, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	45 min
May 30, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	64 min
May 30, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho	23 min
May 30, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	45 min
May 30, 4:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	4 hr
May 30, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Neosho	7 min
May 30, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner	51 min
May 30, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	59 min
May 30, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner	48 min
May 30, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	53 min
May 30, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Sedgwick	31 min
May 30, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	28 min
May 30, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	48 min
May 30, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	46 min
May 30, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Marion	45 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.