Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 12:30 AM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 150533 SVRTOP KSC003-059-150600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1230 AM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...ANDERSON COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 1228 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA TO 20 MILES SOUTH OTTAWA OR FROM NEAR LANE TO JUST SOUTH OF GARNETT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS GARNETT... LANE AND GREELEY BY 1 AM CDT. PEOPLE IN THESE COMMUNITIES SHOULD GET TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY A BASEMENT..UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS BY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.
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 14, 11:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-150505- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1105 PM CDT THU APR 14 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 1100 PM...THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HIAWATHA BETWEEN ATCHISON AND POTTER TO 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA NEAR OZAWKIE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS WINCHESTER AND POTTER AREAS BY 1120 PM. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. WOYNICK
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 11:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-150525- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1125 PM CDT THU APR 14 1994 AT 1115PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NORTH OF LAWRENCE NEAR OSKALOOSA TO JUST SOUTH OF TOPEKA NEAR LYNDON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MPH. SOME PEA SIZE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST...LAWRENCE MAY RECEIVE SOME GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 45 MPH BY 1140PM. A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE FRONT EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF OTTAWA. THE FRONT COULD TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS FROM OTTAWA TO BURLINGTON BY MIDNIGHT. STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUAT6ION.
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 11:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-150525- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1125 PM CDT THU APR 14 1994 AT 1115PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NORTH OF LAWRENCE NEAR OSKALOOSA TO JUST SOUTH OF TOPEKA NEAR LYNDON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MPH. SOME PEA SIZE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST...LAWRENCE MAY RECEIVE SOME GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 45 MPH BY 1140PM. A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE FRONT EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF OTTAWA TO WEST OF BURLINGTON. THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP FROM OTTAWA TO BURLINGTON BY MIDNIGHT. STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THBIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 11:44 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-150500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1142 PM CDT THU APR 14 1994 AT 1140PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MARCH OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST EXITING NORTHERN DOUGLAS AND EASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA AND JUST ABOUT TO ENTER COFFEY COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO BURLINGTON BY MIDNIGHT. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 1AM CDT. STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 11:53 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
KSZALL-150600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1152 PM CDT THU APR 14 1994 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 84 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHEAST... ATCHISON DONIPHAN JEFFERSON ...EAST CENTRAL... CHASE DOUGLAS LYON OSAGE SHAWNEE ...SOUTHEAST... BUTLER THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH... ATCHISON EL DORADO EMPORIA LAWRENCE TOPEKA KAYS
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 12:02 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-150600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS MIDNIGHT CDT FRI APR 15 1994 AT 1155PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST OVER EASTERN KANSAS. THE STORMS STRETCHED FROM SOUTHEAST OF LAWRENCE NEAR WELLSVILLE TO SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA TO NEAR LEROY. THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 45 MPH AND SOME HAIL. STORMS COULD BE MOVING THROUGH LEROY AND GARNETT BEFORE 1AM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 1AM CDT. STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 18 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.