Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1993, 1:52 AM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1993, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1993, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 932 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
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, Jul 5, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-050615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1220 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM THIS MONDAY MORNING...AND INCLUDES MUCH OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND ST. JOSEPH... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 1210 AM...TWO LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING... WERE DETECTED OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI...AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE FIRST LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE IOWA/ MISSOURI BORDER...NORTHEAST OF MARYVILLE MISSOURI...TO ST. JOSEPH. MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS...AS THEY MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORISTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS. THE SECOND LINE OF STORMS WAS 35 MILES WEST OF THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...FROM SOUTHERN ATCHISON COUNTY TO SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY...TO THE NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND THEY WILL MOVE TO NEAR ATCHISON KANSAS...AND WESTERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY KANSAS ...BY 1245 AM. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE KANSAS CITY AREA...AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT...AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. DESTRI
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-050615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1220 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM THIS MONDAY MORNING...AND INCLUDES MUCH OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND ST. JOSEPH... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 1210 AM...TWO LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING... WERE DETECTED OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI...AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE FIRST LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE IOWA/ MISSOURI BORDER...NORTHEAST OF MARYVILLE MISSOURI...TO ST. JOSEPH. MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS...AS THEY MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORISTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS. THE SECOND LINE OF STORMS WAS 35 MILES WEST OF THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...FROM SOUTHERN ATCHISON COUNTY TO SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY...TO THE NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND THEY WILL MOVE TO NEAR ATCHISON KANSAS...AND WESTERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY KANSAS ...BY 1245 AM. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE KANSAS CITY AREA...AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT...AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A PL ACE OF SAFETY. DESTRI
Local storm report, Jul 5, 12:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
1227 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993
...SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FROM THE EVENING OF JULY 4...
TIME-CDT COUNTY/STATE EVENT/LOCATION
1140 PM DONIPHAN KS SEVERAL LIMBS AND A TREE REPORTED DOWN
IN TROY KS. REPORTED BY THE DONIPHAN
SHERIFF. TIME ESTIMATED.
RUNNELSLocal storm report, Jul 5, 12:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
1227 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993
...SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FROM THE EVENING OF JULY 4...
TIME-CDT COUNTY/STATE EVENT/LOCATION
1140 PM DONIPHAN KS SEVERAL LIMBS AND A TREE REPORTED DOWN
IN TROY KS. REPORTED BY THE DONIPHAN
SHERIFF. TIME ESTIMATED.
RUNNELSSpecial weather statement, Jul 5, 12:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-050625- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1247 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM THIS MONDAY MORNING...AND INCLUDES MUCH OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND ST. JOSEPH... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 1235 AM...THE LEADING EDGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF DES MOINES TO 15 MILES EAST OF ST JOSEPH AND THEN ON TO NEAR LEAVENWORTH KANSAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE THEN SCATTERED WESTWARD INTO CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN KANSAS ...25 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA...AND JUST WEST OF LEAVENWORTH. . MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. IN ADDITION TO STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE FLOODING RAINS. MOTORISTS THROUGHOUT THE KANSAS CITY AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND BE CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING ALONG CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. RUNNELS
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-050625- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1247 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM THIS MONDAY MORNING...AND INCLUDES MUCH OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND ST. JOSEPH... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 1235 AM...THE LEADING EDGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF DES MOINES TO 15 MILES EAST OF ST JOSEPH AND THEN ON TO NEAR LEAVENWORTH KANSAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE THEN SCATTERED WESTWARD INTO CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN KANSAS ...25 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA...AND JUST WEST OF LEAVENWORTH. . MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. IN ADDITION TO STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY ALSO: PRODUCE FLOODING RAINS. MOTORISTS THROUGHOUT THE KANSAS CITY AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND BE CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING ALONG CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. RUNNELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 116 min |
| Jul 5, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Holt | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Worth | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.