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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Wichita, KS

July 17, 1994Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1994, 3:14 AM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1994, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1994, 3:52 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 254 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 1994-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2034 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
2034 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2063 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.0

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The text

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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.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 3:51 PM CDT, 11 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 3:51 PM CDT, 11 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
351 PM CDT SAT JUL 16 1994

VORT MAX HAS EXITED THE SE PORTION OF THE STATE ATTM INTO CNTRL MO.  AS PER THE
NGM AND ETA MODELS...NO UVV TO SPEAK OF TO SUPPORT TSTM DVLPMT FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE DAY.  OVRNGT FOCUS FOR TSTM DVLPMT SHD BE ALG STNRY FNTL BNDRY
XTND ALONG THE NORTHERN REACHES OF KS NEAR THE KS/NE BORDER.

RSL 65/90 53  SLN 64/89 53
HUT 68/92 53  ICT 69/93 53
CNU 68/90 43
&
REESE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell66 min
Jul 17, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth65 min
Jul 17, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln38 min
Jul 17, 1:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno62 min
Jul 17, 2:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno32 min
Jul 17, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick53 min
Jul 17, 2:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick66 min
Jul 17, 3:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler53 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.