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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Wichita, KS

July 4, 1994Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1994, 12:12 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1994, 12:12 AM CDT (05:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1994, 12:46 AM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sedgwick County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 1994-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1068 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 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 1994-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 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
1068 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman56 min
Jul 3, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper31 min
Jul 3, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno69 min
Jul 3, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton30 min
Jul 3, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell65 min
Jul 4, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler63 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.