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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS

January 26, 1994Harper County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1994, 5:05 AM CST for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 26, 1994, 5:05 AM CST (11:05 UTC)
Expired
Jan 26, 1994, 5:49 AM CST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Harper County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 1994-01-26Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-01-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jan 26, 4:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner57 min
Jan 26, 4:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley52 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.