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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Wichita, KS

April 21, 1994Wilson County, Woodson County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1994-04-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1994-04-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
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

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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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 5:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner56 min
Apr 21, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood63 min
Apr 21, 4:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTGreenwood4 hr
Apr 21, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood63 min
Apr 21, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman57 min
Apr 21, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler65 min
Apr 21, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk63 min
Apr 21, 5:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTElk, Wilson4 hr
Apr 21, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson47 min
Apr 21, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler64 min
Apr 21, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper60 min
Apr 21, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley45 min
Apr 21, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery68 min

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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.