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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 7, 1994Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1994, 1:46 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1994, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1994, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Miami County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1994-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 289 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 12:00Z on 1994-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 071846
SVRMCI
KSC121-071945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
146 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...MIAMI COUNTY
 
AT 146 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAOLA
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT MIAMI COUNTY SHOULD
PREPARE FOR THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIpL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY
CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.  MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
 
PB/BB

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 7, 12:55 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067-
KSZ057-060-102>105-081200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
100 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994

THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE DUE TO SEVERE
WEATHER APPROACHING THE AREA AT THIS TIME.

COOPER
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 1:00 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067-
KSZ057-060-102>105-081200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
100 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994

THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE DUE TO SEVERE
WEATHER APPROACHING THE AREA AT THIS TIME.

COOPER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte65 min
Jun 7, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.