Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1994, 3:41 PM CDT for Wilson County, Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 1994, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1994, 4:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 21, 12:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
KSZ032-033-047>053-067>073-082-083-091>101-220600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 1223 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS: BARTON COWLEY HARVEY MARION RENO SEDGWICK BUTLER ELLSWORTH KINGMAN MC PHERSON RUSSELL SUMNER CHASE HARPER LINCOLN RICE SALINE AND IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS: ALLEN CHEROKEE GREENWOOD NEOSHO BOURBON CRAWFORD LABETTE WILSON CHAUTAUQUA ELK MONTGOMERY WOODSON SYNOPSIS: AT MIDDAY...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM A LOW NORTH OF WICHITA TO NEAR JOPLIN MISSOURI. WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF THIS FRONT. AS THE FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH SOUTH TODAY...SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WOULD BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COFFEYVILLE TO ELDORADO TO HUTCHINSON. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOWERTON
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 3:31 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
KSZ052-053-070-071-072-095-096-100-212130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 329 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994 AT 325 PM..RADAR INDCATED AN 80 MILE LONG LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF MCPHERSON NEAR HILLSBORO...TO CHANUTE. THE LINE WAS 20 MILES WIDE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE CHANUTE...IOLA AREA BY 345 PM AND IN THE MARION...EUREKA AREA BY 335 PM.x YOU CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINS AND PEA SIZE HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LFW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 5:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 56 min |
| Apr 21, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 63 min |
| Apr 21, 4:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 63 min |
| Apr 21, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 57 min |
| Apr 21, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 63 min |
| Apr 21, 5:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 47 min |
| Apr 21, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
| Apr 21, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 68 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.