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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2026, 5:32 PM CDT for Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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
- Jul 4, 2026, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2026, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Cowley County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 8 min |
| Jul 4, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 67 min |
| Jul 4, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Sedgwick | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood, Marion | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 68 min |
| Jul 4, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 65 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.