Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 6:23 PM CDT for McPherson County, Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1994, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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, 6:10 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
KSZ051-067-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 610 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...STRONG STORMS WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON AND NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON... AT 605 PM STRONG STORMS WITH HAIL UP TO A HALF INCH WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF MCPHERSON...NEAR LINDSBORG. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR MCPHERSON STATE LAKE AND PARK AROUND 620 PM. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS DEVELOPING 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. THIS STORM WILL ALSO LIKELY DROP SOME SMALL HAIL. THIS STORMS WILL LIKELY BE IN THE HUTCHINSON AREA AROUND 630 PM. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE STORM AREAS SHOULD GO TO A STURDY INDOOR SHELTER. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #328 IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM. CLC
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:11 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
KSZ051-067-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 610 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...STRONG STORMS WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON AND NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON... AT 605 PM STRONG STORMS WITH HAIL UP TO A HALF INCH WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF MCPHERSON...NEAR LINDSBORG. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR MCPHERSON STATE LAKE AND PARK AROUND 620 PM. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS DEVELOPING 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. THIS STORM WILL ALSO LIKELY DROP SOME SMALL HAIL. THIS STORMS WILL LIKELY BE IN THE HUTCHINSON AREA AROUND 630 PM. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE STORM AREAS SHOULD GO TO A STURDY INDOOR SHELTER. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCLH #328 IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM. CLC
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, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 58 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, 6:36 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.