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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Topeka, KS

May 5, 1994Osborne County, Smith County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1994, 10:06 PM CDT for Osborne County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1994, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1994, 10:51 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 765 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSmith55 min
May 5, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJewell, Republic43 min
May 5, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington59 min
May 6, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMitchell22 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.