Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1994, 7:57 AM CDT for Douglas County, Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 7:57 AM CDT (12:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 8:24 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 3:46 AM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
KSZ089-281000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 346 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 164 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... ...SOUTH CENTRAL... COMANCHE WALAWENDER
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ090-281000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 407 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 164 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER& IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... ...SOUTH CENTRAL... BARBER THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... MEDICINE LODGE WALAWENDER
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:57 AM CDT, 3 hours before
KSZALL-281100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 458 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 162 EXPIRES AT 5AM CDT AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 164 HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD OCCUR OVER SOUTHERN KANSAS THIS MORNING BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. KAYS
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 5:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-281130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 527 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 518 AM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA...NEAR DUNLAP TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA ...NEAR MADISON. THESE STORMS WERE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH EMPORIA...BURLINGTON...ADMIRE AND DUNLAP BY 6 AM. GUSTY WINDS...PEA SIZED HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FAR EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL NOON. WALAWENDER
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 6:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-281210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 607 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RACE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 6 AM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 25 MILES WEST OF OTTAWA...NEAR LYNDON TO 35 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA...NEAR COLONY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH GARNETT...OTTAWA AND POMONA BY 630 AM. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...PEA SIZED HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL NOON. WALAWENDER
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 7:09 AM CDT, 48 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-281310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 709 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE RACING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 705 AM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF MANHATTAN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH BURLINGTON...OSAGE CIRTY...ALMA...LEBO AND DOVER BY 745 AM. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL NOON. WALAWENDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey | 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.