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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Wichita, KS

April 27, 1994Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 10:57 AM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 1994, 10:57 AM CDT (15:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1994, 11:52 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 269 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 620 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 27, 9:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 10:02 AM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 10:26 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 10:28 AM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 10:56 AM CDT, 1 minute before

KSZ032-033-047-048-049-050-051-052-053-067-068-069-082-083-091-
092-093-271700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1057 AM CDT WED APR 27 1994

...ROADS WERE BECOMING SLICK ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS...

THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS LATE THIS MORNING WERE
PRODUCING VERY SMALL PEA SIZE HAIL AND/OR SLEET AS THEY MOVED ACROSS THE
AREA.  ROADS WERE BECOMING VERY SLICK AND HAZARDOUS...ESPECIALLY BRIDGES
AND OVERPASSES.  IF TRAVELLING THIS MORNING...SLOW DOWN AND USE EXTREME
CAUTION.

NOONAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 10:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	43 min
Apr 27, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	36 min
Apr 27, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	51 min
Apr 27, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	44 min
Apr 27, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	55 min
Apr 27, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	22 min
Apr 27, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	68 min
Apr 27, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	30 min
Apr 27, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	40 min
Apr 27, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	28 min
Apr 27, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.