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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 378, NWS Wichita, KS

August 7, 2026Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2026, 5:37 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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
Aug 7, 2026, 5:37 AM CDT (10:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2026, 6:02 AM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2026-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2581 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2026-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2100 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
23.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 3:09 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTChase8 hr
Aug 7, 7:42 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTMarion4 hr
Aug 7, 8:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler44 min
Aug 7, 8:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler36 min
Aug 7, 8:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Chase, Marion55 min
Aug 7, 9:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Greenwood62 min
Aug 7, 10:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Elk, Greenwood51 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.