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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 389, NWS Wichita, KS

August 13, 2026Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2026, 7:12 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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 13, 2026, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 2026, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 334 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2026-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 980 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2026-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln44 min
Aug 13, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Russell42 min
Aug 13, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell32 min
Aug 14, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Reno, Rice32 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.