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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Topeka, KS

August 26, 1994Coffey County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1994, 1:30 AM CDT for Coffey County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 26, 1994, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 1994, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Coffey County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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, Aug 25, 10:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-260415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1028 PM CDT THU AUG 25 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA SOON TO AFFECT NORTHERN
WASHINGTON COUNTY...

AT 1027 PM...CONCORDIA RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER SOUTEAST NEBRASKA EXTENDING NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR HEBRON TO
FAIRBURY TO ALONG THE NEBRASKA-KANSAS BORDER NORTH OF MARYSVILLE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL ENTER
NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AFTER 1045 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY...
HOWEVER...PRODUCE OUTFLOW WINDS UP TO 45 MPH OUT IN ADVANCE OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS LEADING EDGE.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE THREATENING WEATHER
OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
.
BAKER

Special weather statement, Aug 25, 11:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-260445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1103 PM CDT THU AUG 25 1994

...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 1101 PM...CONCORDIA RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
MAILY SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES WEST OF ABILENE TO
TO JUST WEST OF CONCORDIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY
WINDS OVER 35 MPH. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVEING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH...
ALTHOUGH NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BEHIND THE MAIN AREA...WEST
OF OSBORNE AND SMITH CENTER.

THE THUNDERSTORMS JUST TO THE NORTH OF WASHINGTON COUNTY HAVE BEGIN TO
MOVE INTO NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY JUST TO THE NORTH AND
EAST OF HARLAN. STRONG WINDS TO 50 MPH AND PEA-SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THIS STORM.
.
PERSONS OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR
LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

BAKER

Special weather statement, Aug 26, 12:30 AM CDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Aug 26, 1:24 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 26, 1:25 AM CDT, 5 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
Aug 25, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	28 min
Aug 25, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	36 min
Aug 25, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	41 min
Aug 26, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage, Shawnee	42 min
Aug 26, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	42 min
Aug 26, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris	44 min
Aug 26, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1994 Every 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.