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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 1993, 4:45 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 1993, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 1993, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 212146 TORMCI KSC091-103-212230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 445 PM CDT TUE SEP 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY...SOUTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY AT 445 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHWEST JOHNSON COUNTY. A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORM NEAR EUDORA AT 433 PM. IN ADDITION...THE STORM HAS PRODUCED HAIL NEARLY THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS ALONG LEAVENWORTH COUNTY ROAD 2440 AND THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. THE STORM ALSO PRODUCED 100 MPH WINDS AT THE LAWRENCE AIRPORT. RESIDENTS FROM LINWOOD TO LENAPE AND DE SOTO...ALONG WITH THE REST OF WESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS SHOUYLD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 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...T OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. RUNNELS &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 1:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
MOZ004-005-008-009-KS016-211930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 145 PM CDT SUN SEP 19 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND NORTHEASTERN KANSAS AND WESTCENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS...UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING... AT 240 PM...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY STRONG... WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA...25 MILES WIDE...AND EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA TO EAST OF LINCOLN NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE TO THE NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 59 min |
| Sep 21, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 5:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 118 min |
| Sep 21, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 44 min |
| Sep 21, 5:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Miami | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 46 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.