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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 31, 1993Caldwell County, Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1993, 6:39 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 1993, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Caldwell County, MO, Ray County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2799 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
2799 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Holt43 min
Jul 31, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDeKalb53 min
Jul 31, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan36 min
Jul 31, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton46 min
Jul 31, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess47 min
Jul 31, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Platte39 min
Jul 31, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson41 min

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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.