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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Wichita, KS

June 8, 1994Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1994, 5:53 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1994, 5:53 AM CDT (10:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1994, 6:26 AM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1994-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 63 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1994-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-734 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
378 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 6:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette, Montgomery42 min

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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.