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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Topeka, KS

October 6, 1994Geary County, Riley County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 6, 1994, 8:31 PM CDT for Geary County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 6, 1994, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
Expired
Oct 6, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Geary County, KS, Riley County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 151 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 6, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson39 min
Oct 6, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley31 min
Oct 6, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie41 min
Oct 6, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie27 min
Oct 6, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie13 min

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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.