Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT for Linn County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1993, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Linn County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1394 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 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, Apr 12, 12:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-121900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1255 PM CST MON APR 12 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... AT 1250 PM...TWO LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE FIRST LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF OLATHE TO JUST NORTH OF PEOLA...IN JOHNSON AND MIAMI COUNTIES. THESE STRORMS HAVE PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN GARDNER...WHICH IS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLATHE. THE OTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED EXTREME WESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY ...TO THE SOUTHEAST OF LAWRENCE...TO JUST WEST OF TOPEKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...NAND THEY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST PARTS OF THE METRO AREA BETWEEN 100 AND 230 PM. . HAIL OF UP TO MARBLE SIZE...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. DESTRI
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 1:55 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-121900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1255 PM CST MON APR 12 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... AT 1250 PM...TWO LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE FIRST LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF OLATHE TO JUST NORTH OF PEOLA...IN JOHNSON AND MIAMI COUNTIES. THESE STRORMS HAVE PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN GARDNER...WHICH IS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLATHE. THE OTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED EXTREME WESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY ...TO THE SOUTHEAST OF LAWRENCE...TO JUST WEST OF TOPEKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND THEY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST PARTS OF THE METRO AREA BETWEEN 100 AND 230 PM. . HAIL OF UP TO MARBLE SIZE...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. DESTRI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 61 min |
| Apr 12, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pettis | 33 min |
| Apr 12, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Pettis | 37 min |
| Apr 12, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.