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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Topeka, KS

July 1, 1994Coffey County, Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1994, 10:38 PM CDT for Coffey County, Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 1994, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 1994, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coffey County, KS, Franklin County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 11.6

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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, Jul 1, 10:18 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jewell, Republic	54 min
Jul 1, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	62 min
Jul 1, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Washington	54 min
Jul 1, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	27 min
Jul 1, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	48 min
Jul 1, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	61 min
Jul 1, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	55 min
Jul 1, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Washington	38 min
Jul 1, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Ottawa	34 min
Jul 1, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osborne	48 min
Jul 1, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	62 min
Jul 1, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	54 min
Jul 1, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Smith	34 min
Jul 1, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	58 min
Jul 1, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Nemaha	64 min
Jul 1, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Atchison	64 min
Jul 1, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Mitchell	47 min
Jul 1, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	41 min
Jul 1, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Wabaunsee	68 min
Jul 1, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Mitchell, Osborne	49 min
Jul 1, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	62 min
Jul 1, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	67 min
Jul 1, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	33 min
Jul 1, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	62 min
Jul 1, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	43 min
Jul 1, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage	58 min
Jul 1, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Atchison	64 min
Jul 1, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas	62 min
Jul 1, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	57 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.