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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1994, 8:48 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 1994, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1581 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 2:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067- KSZ057-060-102>105-021200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 251 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO THE EASTERN KANSAS COUNTIES OF DONIPHAN JOHNSON LEAVENWORTH LINN MIAMI WYANDOTTE AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI COUNTIES OF ANDREW CASS GRUNDY LAFAYETTE RAY ATCHISON CLAY HARRISON LIVINGSTON ST. CLAIR BATES CLINTON HENRY MERCER SULLIVAN BUCHANAN DAVIESS HOLT NODAWAY WORTH CALDWELL DEKALB JACKSON PLATTE CARROLL GENTRY JOHNSON PUTNAM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...BUT ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE... SKIES CONTINUED MOSTLY CLOUDY ACROSS THE AREA AT MID-AFTERNOON...AND THE LACK OF STRONG DAYTIME HEATING HAS RESULTED IN A MORE STABLE ATMOSPHERE. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...CONDITIONS DO NOT APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. BUNTING
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 2:52 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067- KSZ057-060-102>105-021200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 251 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO THE EASTERN KANSAS COUNTIES OF DONIPHAN JOHNSON LEAVENWORTH LINN MIAMI WYANDOTTE AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI COUNTIES OF ANDREW CASS GRUNDY LAFAYETTE RAY ATCHISON CLAY HARRISON LIVINGSTON ST. CLAIR BATES CLINTON HENRY MERCER SULLIVAN BUCHANAN DAVIESS HOLT NODAWAY WORTH CALDWELL DEKALB JACKSON PLATTE CARROLL GENTRY JOHNSON PUTNAM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...BUT ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE... SKIES CONTINUED MOSTLY CLOUDY ACROSS THE AREA AT MID-AFTERNOON...AND THE LACK OF STRONG DAYTIME HEATING HAS RESULTED IN A MORE STABLE ATMOSPHERE. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...CONDITIONS DO NOT APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. BUNTING
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 8:24 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 48 min |
| Aug 1, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 47 min |
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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.