Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1994, 7:21 PM CDT for Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1994, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1994, 7:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Riley County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 11, 6:28 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-120030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 628 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994 AT 627 PM RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA OR JUST NORTH OF HUSCHER MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO JUST SOUTH OF AMES BY 650 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVES TO SAFE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOUR DESTINATION. SW :
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 6:30 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-120030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 628 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994 AT 627 PM RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA OR JUST NORTH OF HUSCHER MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO JUST SOUTH OF AMES BY 650 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVES TO SAFE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOUR DESTINATION. SW
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 6:33 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-120030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION LAST LINE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 628 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994 AT 627 PM RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA OR JUST NORTH OF HUSCHER MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO JUST SOUTH OF AMES BY 650 PM AND TO NEAR CLIFTON BY 715 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVES TO SAFE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SW
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 6:58 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
KSZ010-022-023-036-038-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 657 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994 ...A THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED NEAR MANHATTAN... AT 650 PM A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN. THE RILEY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING SOME SMALL HAIL NEAR THE TOWN OF RILEY. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AN MAY PASS OVER THE CITY OF MANHATTAN BY 8 PM. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KISNER
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 6:59 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 659 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994 AT 657 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF CONCORDIA BETWEEN AMES AND ST JOSEPH. THIS STROM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL DEADLY LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE ST JOSEPH... CLIFTON AND MORGANVILLE CAN EXPECT THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM THROUGH 730 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVES TO SAFE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SW
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
KSZ006>009-018>021-034-035-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 659 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994 AT 657 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF CONCORDIA BETWEEN AMES AND ST JOSEPH. THIS STROM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL DEADLY LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE ST JOSEPH... CLIFTON AND MORGANVILLE CAN EXPECT THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM THROUGH 730 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVES TO SAFE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 40 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.