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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 1994Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 6:58 PM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1994, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1994, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1994-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1304 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1994-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
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

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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, Jun 5, 6:10 PM CDT, 48 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, 47 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton55 min
Jun 5, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth58 min
Jun 5, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth42 min
Jun 5, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice59 min
Jun 5, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Marion67 min
Jun 5, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno39 min
Jun 5, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMarion49 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.