Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1994, 7:12 PM CST for Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1994, 7:12 PM CST (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1994, 7:34 PM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 070113 SVRICT KSC125-205-070215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 712 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY...SOUTHERN WILSON COUNTY AT 710 PM CWS...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST NORTH OF ELK CITY OR 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING BETWEEN NEODESHA AND SYCAMORE BY 745 PM. PEOPLE ACROSS NORTHERN MONTGOMERY AND SOUTHERN NEOSHO COUNTIES SHOULD HEAD FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER WHEN THIS STORM PASSES. ROSNER WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 6:57 PM CST, 15 minutes before
KSZ094-095-096-097-099-100-101-070200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 657 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 AT 650 PM CST...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING INTO A LINE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE TO 30 MILES EAST OF COFFEYVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO NEODESHA...PARSON AND COLUMBUS AROUND 735 PM. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED. ROSNER
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 6:59 PM CST, 13 minutes before
KSZ094-095-096-097-099-100-101-070200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 657 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 AT 650 PM CST...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING INTO A LINE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE TO 30 MILES EAST OF COFFEYVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO NEODESHA...PARSON AND COLUMBUS AROUND 735 PM. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED. ROSNER n
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 7:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.