Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1994, 7:54 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 1994, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cowley County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 747 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 100057 TORICT KSC035-100200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 754 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN COWLEY COUNTY AT 755 PM...A TRAINED SPOTTER INDICATED A TORNADO CROSSING THE KANSAS TURNPIKE JUST EAST OF BELL PLAINE. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN UDALL...AKRON..ROCK...FLORA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. GO TO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROU ND IF 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. &
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, 3:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 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, 3 hours 36 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
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 5:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
KSC095-173-191-100015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 518 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...A TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR HARPER COUNTY UNTIL 6 PM CDT... AT 515 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN HARPER COUNTY WAS PART OF A SERIES OF NEWLY DEVELOPED STORMS EXTENDING SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF THAT AREA. SOME OF THESE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST SEDGWICK COUNTY AROUND 545 PM...THEN UP INTO THE GREATER WICHITA AREA BETWEEN 615 AND 7 PM CDT. SOME OF THESE STRONGER STORMS WILL ALSO BE PASSING THROUGH NORTHWEST SUMNER COUNTY AND SOUTHEAST KINGMAN COUNTY BEFORE 6 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. J.CHRISTENSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 55 min |
| Apr 9, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 61 min |
| Apr 9, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 57 min |
| Apr 9, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 67 min |
| Apr 9, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 68 min |
| Apr 9, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| Apr 9, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Bourbon, Crawford | 65 min |
| Apr 9, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 55 min |
| Apr 9, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Apr 9, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 59 min |
| Apr 9, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Crawford | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| Apr 9, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 46 min |
| Apr 9, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 52 min |
| Apr 10, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee | 57 min |
| Apr 10, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 65 min |
| Apr 10, 6:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 4 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.