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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 8, 1993Johnson County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Johnson County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 133 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 1:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden, Miller27 min
Jun 8, 3:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXMaries, Osage3 hr
Jun 8, 3:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXGasconade101 min
Jun 8, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson51 min
Jun 8, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRay37 min
Jun 8, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson31 min
Jun 8, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson25 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.