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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 2, 1993Atchison County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1993, 12:31 PM CDT for Atchison County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 1993, 12:31 PM CDT (17:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1993, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Atchison County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 1993-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 943 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 1993-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
943 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway46 min
Sep 2, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison31 min
Sep 2, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMercer45 min
Sep 2, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess40 min
Sep 2, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAudrain, Boone, Callaway35 min
Sep 2, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte32 min
Sep 2, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson29 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.