Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Goodland, KS

July 1, 1994Graham County, Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1994, 8:32 PM CDT for Graham County, Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1994, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Graham County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1432 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne61 min
Jul 2, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln50 min
Jul 2, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne66 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.