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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Wichita, KS

June 2, 2026Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2026, 12:23 AM CDT for Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 2, 2026, 12:23 AM CDT (05:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2026, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Destructive
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 80.0 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 05:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 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.

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: 1060 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 1, 7:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 7:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 3:06 PM CDT, 9 hours 17 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Wichita KS
306 PM CDT Mon Jun 1 2026

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-022015-
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-
306 PM CDT Mon Jun 1 2026

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central Kansas,
east central Kansas, south central Kansas and southeast Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Tonight

Thunderstorms are expected to move into central Kansas later this
evening and move further east through the overnight hours. The
strongest thunderstorms may produce hail near quarter size, wind
gusts to 70 mph, and heavy rain for locations generally along and
west of Interstate 135.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

Additional thunderstorms are possible Tuesday through Sunday.
Widespread severe storms are not anticipated.

.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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno	53 min
Jun 2, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner	67 min
Jun 2, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner	63 min
Jun 2, 1:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2026 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2026

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.