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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 5, 1993Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1993, 2:32 PM CDT for Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 1993, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1993, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Johnson County, KS, Miami County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -235 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 609 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 677 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 18.5

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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, 10:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-051640-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1040 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND
WESTERN MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA..

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ANDREW COUNTY UNTIL 1215...

AT 1035 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN JOHNSON
COUNTY AND EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES IN EASTERN KANSAS.  HEAVY RAINFALL
AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER JOHNSON COUNTY BETWEEN 11AM AND
NOON AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ALSO OCCURRING FROM KANSAS CITY TO THE
NORTHEAST INTO NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI.

HEAVY RAINS CAN FLOOD CREEKS AND ROADWAYS QUICKLY.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO
ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.

BROWNING

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 10:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-051640-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1040 AM CDT MON JUL 5 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND
WESTERN MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA..

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ANDREW COUNTY UNTIL 1215...

AT 1035 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN JOHNSON
COUNTY AND EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES IN EASTERN KANSAS.  HEAVY RAINFALL
AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER JOHNSON COUNTY BETWEEN 11AM AND
NOON AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ALSO OCCURRING FROM KANSAS CITY TO THE
NORTHEAST INTO NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI.

HEAVY RAINS CAN FLOOD CREEKS AND ROADWAYS QUICKLY.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO
ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.

BROWNING

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:56 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:58 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	38 min
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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every 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.