Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 11:30 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 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
Local storm report, Apr 27, 5:32 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
530 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR 4/27/94
ALL TIMES CDT
TIME COUNTY REPORT
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1056 AM HARVEY DIME SIZE HAIL 5E NEWTON
1058 AM SEDGWICK NICKEL SIZE HAIL NORTHEAST WICHITA (HWY 254 OFF
GREENWICH- SPOTTER)
1114 AM BUTLER DIME SIZE HAIL 3E AUGUSTA (SHERIFF)
1110 AM BUTLER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN DOUGLASS (RADIO STN)
1130 AM SUMNER 3/4 INCH HAIL IN ARGONIA
1255 PM SEDGWICK 50 KT WIND MEASURED AT ICT NWS
200 PM CHAUTAUQUA 3/4 INCH HAIL AT SEDAN
207 PM MONTGOMERY DIME SIZE HAIL 3SE ELK CITY
220 PM SUMNER DIME SIZE HAIL 5NW CALDWELL
242 PM SUMNER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 3SE SOUTH HAVEN
245 PM MONTGOMERY DIME SIZE HAIL 3SE ELK CITY
255 PM COWLEY 3/4 INCH HAIL IN ARKANSAS CI>TY (HAM)
307 PM KINGMAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN NORWICH (SPOTTER)
CLC/MJRLocal storm report, Apr 27, 8:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
820 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR 4/27/94
ALL TIMES CDT
TIME COUNTY REPORT
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523 PM SUMNER TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 11/2 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CALDWELL
525 PM SUMNER 3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN CALDWELL BY SUMNER COUNTY EP
547 PM SUMNER 1 INCH HAIL IN BELLE PLAINE REPORTED BY THE SUMNER COUNTY
EP
550 PM SUMNER 1 INCH HAIL 3 MILES NORTH OF BELLE PLAINE REPORTED BY
THE SUMNER COUNTY EP
603 PM SEDGWICK DIME SIZE HA$IL REPORTED BY A TRAINED SPOTTER IN
DERBY
655 PM COWLEY DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY A TRAINED SPOTTER IN
WINFIELD.
ROSNERSpecial weather statement, Apr 27, 8:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
KSC001-019-021-035-037-049-073-099-125-133-191-205-207-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 856 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #154 FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS WILL BE ALLOW TO EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE NIGHT BUT WITH HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL AND SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 1:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 3 hr |
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.