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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Wichita, KS

September 21, 1994Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 1994, 6:34 PM CDT for Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 21, 1994, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Sep 21, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harper County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 224 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1994-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1994-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 21, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln54 min
Sep 21, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman52 min
Sep 21, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper67 min
Sep 21, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline53 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.