Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1994, 7:27 PM CST for Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1994, 7:27 PM CST (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1994, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, Mar 6, 6:57 PM CST, 30 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, 28 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 | Wilson | 22 min |
| Mar 6, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 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.