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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 7, 1994Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1994, 3:14 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1994, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1994, 3:46 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Ray County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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

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, Jun 7, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 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, 2 hours 14 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, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates66 min
Jun 7, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass66 min
Jun 7, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCallaway, Osage34 min
Jun 7, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte65 min
Jun 7, 1:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami59 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.