Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 5:02 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1994, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellsworth County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, Jun 5, 11:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
KSZ032-033-047>053-067>073-082-083-091>101-060600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 1125 AM CDT SUN JUN 5 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: A WEAK SLOW-MOVING COLD FRONT WILL ENTER CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON INTO A VERY MOIST...VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. HOWEVER... UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LACKING. THEREFORE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD ONLY BE ISOLATED AND CONFINED TO LATE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. ES
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 11:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ032-033-047>053-067>073-082-083-091>101-060600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 1125 AM CDT SUN JUN 5 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: A WEAK SLOW-MOVING COLD FRONT WILL ENTER CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOOdN INTO A VERY MOIST...VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. HOWEVER... UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LACKING. THEREFORE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD ONLY BE ISOLATED AND CONFINED TO LATE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. ES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 47 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.