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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Wichita, KS

June 25, 2026Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2026, 10:41 AM CDT for Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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 25, 2026, 10:41 AM CDT (15:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2026, 11:04 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kingman County, KS, Reno County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 256 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: 241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -290 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Jun 25, 5:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 5:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 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
Jun 25, 1:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	55 hr
Jun 25, 8:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	59 hr
Jun 25, 8:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho	72 hr
Jun 25, 8:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	4 days
Jun 25, 8:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Labette	4 days
Jun 25, 8:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	30 hr
Jun 25, 8:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	57 hr
Jun 25, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Cowley	26 min
Jun 25, 2:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	4 days
Jun 25, 2:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	23 hr
Jun 25, 2:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	3 days
Jun 25, 2:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	71 hr
Jun 25, 2:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	40 hr
Jun 25, 2:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	3 days
Jun 25, 2:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	23 hr
Jun 25, 2:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	3 days
Jun 25, 2:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	4 days
Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	23 hr
Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	31 hr
Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman	59 hr
Jun 25, 3:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	8 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.