Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1994, 11:04 AM CDT for Marshall County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1994, 11:04 AM CDT (16:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1994, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, KS, Riley County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1472 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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, Jun 7, 9:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-071515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ..CORRECT HEADLINE.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 930 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN SMITH AND JEWELL COUNTIES... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #342 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 1 PM... AT 928 AM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHOSE LEADING EDGE WAS FROM NEAR KENSINGTON TO MANKATO TO THE CITY OF REPUBLIC. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF BURR OAK...OR 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA. MOVEMENT CONTINUED SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE BELLEVILLE AND JAMESTOWN AREAS BY 10 AM. KEEP UPDATED BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-071545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 942 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES UNTIL 1 PM... AT 940 AM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A FEW SPRINKLES IN THE TOPEKA AREA WHILE THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WAS RAIN-FREE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DETECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM LINCOLN TO CONCORDIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND MAY MOVE INTO THE MARYSVILLE AND MANHATTAN AREAS AFTER 11 AM. BARLOW
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KSZ007-008-009-018-019-020-021-034-035-006-071600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 959 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 AT 959 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHOSE LEADING EDGE WAS FROM CUBA TO JAMESTOWN MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN CLOUD COUNTY INCLUDING THE CONCORDIA AREA THROUGH 1015 AM CDT. THIS AREA OF STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS OF 50 MPH...HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS AND TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR BY WAY OF LOCAL MEDIA. NOLES
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KSZ007-008-009-018-019-020-021-034-035-006-071600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 959 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 AT 959 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHOSE LEADING EDGE WAS FROM CUBA TO JAMESTOWN MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN CLOUD COUNTY INCLUDING THE CONCORDIA AREA THROUGH 1015 AM CDT. THIS AREA OF STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS OF 50 MPH...HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS AND TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR BY WAY OF LOCAL MEDIA. NOLES
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 10:47 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
KSZ010>012-022>026-036>040-054>056-058-059-071650- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1047 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING MARSHALL AND RILEY COUNTIES... AT 1045 AM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARYSVILLE TO 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO MARSHALL AND RILEY COUNTIES BEYWEEN 1100 AND 1130 AM. PERSONS IN MARYSVILLE...BLUE RAPIDS AND LEONARDVILLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND MOVE INDOORS WHEN THE STORMS APPROACH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE AND STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS TO 50 bMPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 1 PM FOR RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES. BARLOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 35 min |
| Jun 7, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 54 min |
| Jun 7, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 7, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1994Every 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.