Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1994, 6:42 PM CDT for Atchison County, Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1994, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 608 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, Apr 25, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KSZ031-061-081-252315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 507 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 116 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...CENTRAL... ELLIS ...SOUTH CENTRAL... PRATT STAFFORD THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH... HAYS PRATT BILLS
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 5:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-252330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 525 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTH... AT 520 PM AN AREA OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF MANHATTAN NEAR COUNCIL GROVE TO EAST OF EMPORIA NEAR BURLINGTON. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA. HEAVY RAINS...LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. THIS AREA OF RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE TO THE NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THIS CURRENT SPEED...RAIN SHOULD REACH INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN 6 AND 630 PM. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED SO F0AR THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE REGION UNTIL 10 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. KISNER
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 5:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-252315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 526 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH #116 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 525 PM RADAR SHOWED THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED NORTH OUT OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO NEBRASKA...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS WHICH ARE MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NATOMA OR 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS AND 5 MILES SOUTH OF SYLVAN GROVE OR 25 MILES EAST OF RUSSELL. PERSONS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLYCHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LISTEN TO <NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS THROUGH THE EVENING CONCERNING THIS VERY VOLATILE SITUATION. ..PACKETT..
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 6:04 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-260005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 604 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...VERY GUSTY WINDS OVERSPREADING NORTHEAST KANSAS... THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE TOPEKA AREA IS PRODUCING VERY GUSTY WINDS. GUSTS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND 630 PM. THE WINDS SHOULD REACH THE LAWRENCE AREA BY 615 PM. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE JACKSON AND JEFFERSON COUNTY AREAS BY 630 PM. THE OSAGE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SOME TREE AND WINDOW DAMAGE AS THE STORM MOVED THROUGH THE OSAGE CITY AND CARBONDALE AREAS AROUND 550 PM. THOSE AT AREA LAKES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORMS SHOULD BE MOVING TO SHELTER AT THIS TIME. THESE WINDS WILL MAKE FOR VERY ROUGH WATERS ON THESE LAKES. KISNER
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 6:15 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
KSZ019-260015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 613 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 AT 613 PM RADAR SHOWS THE STORM OVER MITCHELL COUNTY TO BE WEAKENING AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTH AT 50 MPH...THEREFORE THE WARNING FOR MITCHELL COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 615 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED FROM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SMITH CENTER TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. MDOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 5O MPH.
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 6:25 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 43 min |
| Apr 25, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Smith | 51 min |
| Apr 25, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Mitchell, Osborne | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 52 min |
| Apr 25, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell, Smith | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 29 min |
| Apr 25, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.