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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 9, 1993Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1993, 11:44 PM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 1993, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1993, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Leavenworth County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3575 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.9
Supercell composite: 20.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 100446
TORMCI
KSC103-100515-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1144 PM CDT FRI JUL 9 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...LEAVENWORTH COUNTY
 
AT 1141 PM A TORNADO WAS INDICATED ON RADAR JUST NORTH OF TONGANOIXE
KANSAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. TAKE COVER IF YOUR IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	40 min
Jul 10, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	49 min
Jul 10, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	52 min
Jul 10, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	42 min
Jul 10, 1:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	4 hr
Jul 10, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	31 min
Jul 10, 3:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	4 hr
Jul 10, 3:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	4 hr

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.