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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Wichita, KS

July 1, 1994Elk County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1994, 11:52 PM CDT for Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1994, 11:52 PM CDT (04:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1994, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Elk County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 00:00Z on 1994-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4374 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1994-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
4374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
11.6

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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 Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln, Russell60 min
Jul 1, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Saline65 min
Jul 1, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton58 min
Jul 1, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Rice59 min
Jul 1, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Marion61 min
Jul 1, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Reno61 min
Jul 1, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Sedgwick2 hr
Jul 1, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman2 hr
Jul 1, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood59 min
Jul 1, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Sumner59 min
Jul 1, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey40 min
Jul 1, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley57 min
Jul 1, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood47 min
Jul 2, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua58 min
Jul 2, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery, Wilson46 min
Jul 2, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWoodson46 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.