Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 1993, 1:07 AM CDT for Caldwell County, Carroll County, Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 1993, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1993, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Ray County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 506 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 30.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 220608 TORMCI MOC033-025-177-220645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 107 AM CDT WED SEP 22 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...WESTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...SOUTHEASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN RAY COUNTY AT 105 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE BRAYMER...REGAL...STET...BOGARD...AND CARROLLTON. TAKE COVER NOW!!! 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 WIN\DOWS.
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
Local storm report, Sep 21, 8:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO ISSUING OFFICE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY, MO
748 PM CST TUE SEP 21 1993
...STORM REPORTS FROM THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF SEPT 21...
TIME COUNTY EVENT
418 PM CDT LEAVENWORTH/KS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
RENO.
433 PM CDT LEAVENWORTH/KS TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND 5
MILES SOUTHWEST OF RENO.
454 PM CDT JOHNSON/KS BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 3 MILES WEST OF OLATH
E.
512 PM CDT JOHNSON/KS BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AT EDGERTON.
512 PM CDT JOHNSON/KS HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AT OLATHE.
TIME COUNTY EVENT
522 PM CDT JOHNSON/KS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND 65 MPH WIND AT
SPRING HILL.
522 PM CDT MIAMI/KS LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN AT GARDNER.
532 PM CDT JOHNSON/KS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT SPRING HILL.
536 PM CDT MIAMI/KS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT HILLSDALE.
655 PM CDT ATCHINSON/MO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT ROCKPORT.
716 PM CDT ATCHINSON/MO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT TARKIOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 56 min |
| Sep 21, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt, Nodaway | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 53 min |
| Sep 21, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 50 min |
| Sep 21, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 28 min |
| Sep 21, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 47 min |
| Sep 21, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt, Nodaway | 40 min |
| Sep 21, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 43 min |
| Sep 21, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 50 min |
| Sep 21, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 50 min |
| Sep 21, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, DeKalb | 38 min |
| Sep 21, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 11:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Daviess | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton | 40 min |
| Sep 22, 12:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain | 40 min |
| Sep 22, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 40 min |
| Sep 22, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone | 50 min |
| Sep 22, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette | 53 min |
| Sep 22, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 61 min |
| Sep 22, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Montgomery | 61 min |
| Sep 22, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Cooper, Moniteau | 52 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.