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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 1, 1994Johnson County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1994-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1581 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1994-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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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.

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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon44 min
Aug 1, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass48 min
Aug 1, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.