Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 11:17 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1994, 11:17 PM CDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1994, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 415 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 060417 SVRMCI KSC121-060445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1117 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...MIAMI COUNTY AT 1115PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PAOLA KANSAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL STRONG STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN MIAMI COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMMAGING WIND...THESE STORMS WILL WILL ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH SOME FLOODING LIKELY. &
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, Jun 5, 10:54 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
MOZ020-021-028-029-037-043-KSZ103>105-060455- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1054 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1053 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS FROM SOUTH OF OSAWATOMIE TO GARNETT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG 30 TO 40 MPH WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH MIAMI AND LINN COUNTIES. ANOTHER STORNGER STORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI REMAINS UNSTABLE AND ADDITIONAL STORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. RESIDENTSA THROUGHOUT THE REGION SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE COVER AS THEY APPROACH. RUNNELS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 10:55 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
MOZ020-021-028-029-037-043-KSZ103>105-060455- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1054 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1053 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS FROM SOUTH OF OSAWATOMIE TO GARNETT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG 30 TO 40 MPH WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH MIAMI AND LINN COUNTIES. ANOTHER STORNGER STORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI REMAINS UNSTABLE AND ADDIzTIONAL STORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. RESIDENTSA THROUGHOUT THE REGION SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE COVER AS THEY APPROACH. RUNNELS
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.