Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1994, 4:59 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 1994, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harper County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 491 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 092201 TORICT KSC077-092300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 459 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...HARPER COUNTY AT 5 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF ATTICA...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS POTENTIAL TORNADO INCLUDE...HARPER...DANVILLE...AND RUNNYMEDE. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IXF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. JC
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 9, 11:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
KSZ032-033-047>053-067>073-082-083-091>101-100500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 1140 AM CDT FRI APR 8 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 NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT IS FORECAST TO LYE ALONG THE KANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER THROUGH THIS EVENING AS LOW PRESSURE DEEPENS OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. AT THE SAME TIME...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO THE KANSAS REGION...SETTING OFF ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ...LASTING INTO THE EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM KINGMAN TO WICHITA TO FORT SCOTT. THE MAIN WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. OGREN
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
KSC015-019-035-049-073-077-095-173-191-092230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 325 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 320 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM PRATT TO EMPORIA. HOWEVER...MUCH STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF HAZARDOUS WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. OGREN
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:18 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
KSZ082-091-092315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 416 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 415 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. ONE STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED AROUND 20 MILES SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE... MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN ZENDA AND ATTICA BY 500 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM... BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED. CAMPBELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 26 min |
| Apr 9, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 19 min |
| Apr 9, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 63 min |
| Apr 9, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 62 min |
| Apr 9, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| Apr 9, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 68 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.