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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS

April 9, 1994Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1994, 6:11 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 19 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 9, 1994, 6:11 AM CDT (11:11 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 1994, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Chautauqua County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 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, Apr 9, 4:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

KSZ092-091030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
427 AM CDT SAT APR 9 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SUMNER COUNTY...

AT 425 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CALDWELL OR
27 MILES WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONG WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH HAVEN BY 500 AM.  THOSE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE INDOORS TO PROTECT AGAINST SMALL HAIL AND
WInNDS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR.

KING

Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

KSZ092-091030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
427 AM CDT SAT APR 9 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SUMNER COUNTY...

AT 425 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CALDWELL OR
27 MILES WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH HAVEN BY 500 AM.  THOSE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE INDOORS TO PROTECT AGAINST SMALL HAIL AND
WINDpS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR.

KING

Special weather statement, Apr 9, 5:54 AM CDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	26 min
Apr 9, 5:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	45 min
Apr 9, 6:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	30 min
Apr 9, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	63 min
Apr 9, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper	61 min
Apr 9, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	62 min
Apr 9, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	55 min
Apr 9, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	43 min
Apr 9, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1994 Every 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.