Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 7:07 PM CST for Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 7:07 PM CST (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Platte County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 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, Mar 30, 4:47 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
MOZ001-002-005-008-009-013-302345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 445 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST... AT 430 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO RUMBLE ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN MARSHALL AND CARROLITON AND AND NORTHWEST OF SEDALIA IN MISSOURI. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. ALTHOUGH NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE SEVERE...PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR GH
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 5:22 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
MOZ001-002-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-310045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 522 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST IN EASTCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND UNTIL 9 PM CST FOR WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 510 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN TWO GROUPS...ONE IN MISSOURI FROM CHILLICOTHE TO ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF STRONG STORMS WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORNADOES. REMAIN ALERT AND AWARE OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS IN YOUR AREA AND STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TELEVISION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNJING. HIBBERT
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 5:23 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
MOZ001-002-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-310045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 522 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST IN EASTCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND UNTIL 9 PM CST FOR WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 510 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN TWO GROUPS...ONE IN MISSOURI FROM CHILLICOTHE TO ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF STRONG STORMS WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORNADOES. REMAIN ALERT AND AWARE OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS IN YOUR AREA AND STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TELEVISION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNLING. HIBBERT
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 5:48 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
MOZ005-008-009-013-KSZ016-310045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 545 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 7 PM CST AND FOR WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM CST...THIS INCLUDES ALL OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE ST JOSEPH... AT 540 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINS AND TORNADOES...WERE OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND PARTS OF CENTRAL TO NORTHERN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER EASTCENTRAL KANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA AND WERE MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY ENTER THE EXTREME WESTERN EDGE OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...INTO JOHNSON AND LEAVENWORTH COUNTIES...BY 615 PM. OTHER STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL TO NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BROOKFIELD...80 MILES EAST OF ST JOSEPH...TO THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS REGION...110 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS AS A LOW PRESSURE AREA MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS INTO WESTERN MISSOURI OVERNIGHT. BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER BY REMAINING ALERT AND AWARE OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO COMMERCIAL RADIO...TELEVISION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HIBBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 38 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.