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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 25, 1993Gentry County, Worth County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1993, 12:29 AM CDT for Gentry County, Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1993, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1993, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gentry County, MO, Worth County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1993-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5445 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1993-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
5445 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
6.0
Supercell composite
28.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison62 min
Jul 24, 9:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAtchison, Holt, Nodaway6 hr
Jul 25, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway44 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.