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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS

March 6, 1994Cherokee County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1994-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 221 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1994-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
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

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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, 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
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 7:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson22 min
Mar 6, 7:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery63 min
Mar 6, 7:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua58 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.