Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 12, 1993, 4:27 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 1993, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1993, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pettis County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1394 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 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 KCOU 122134 RRA TORCOU MOC159-122200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 427 PM CDT MON APR 12 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN PETTIS COUNTY...INCLUDING SEDALIA AT 430 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEDALIA...JUST SOUTH OF WHITEMAN AFB. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR SEDALIA BY 450 PM. IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME...GET OUT AND TAKE COVER IN A STRONG BUILDING...OR GET IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. IF YOU ARE IN AN APARTMENT...OFFICE OR SCHOOL...TAKE COVER IN THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INSIDE ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KENNEDY/STANLEY
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, Apr 12, 12:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-121900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1255 PM CST MON APR 12 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... AT 1250 PM...TWO LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE FIRST LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF OLATHE TO JUST NORTH OF PEOLA...IN JOHNSON AND MIAMI COUNTIES. THESE STRORMS HAVE PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN GARDNER...WHICH IS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLATHE. THE OTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED EXTREME WESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY ...TO THE SOUTHEAST OF LAWRENCE...TO JUST WEST OF TOPEKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...NAND THEY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST PARTS OF THE METRO AREA BETWEEN 100 AND 230 PM. . HAIL OF UP TO MARBLE SIZE...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. DESTRI
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 1:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-121900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1255 PM CST MON APR 12 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... AT 1250 PM...TWO LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE FIRST LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF OLATHE TO JUST NORTH OF PEOLA...IN JOHNSON AND MIAMI COUNTIES. THESE STRORMS HAVE PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN GARDNER...WHICH IS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLATHE. THE OTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED EXTREME WESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY ...TO THE SOUTHEAST OF LAWRENCE...TO JUST WEST OF TOPEKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND THEY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST PARTS OF THE METRO AREA BETWEEN 100 AND 230 PM. . HAIL OF UP TO MARBLE SIZE...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. DESTRI
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 3:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-122045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 300 PM CST MON APR 12 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY AREA UNTIL 800 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... AT 255 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AND WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME VERY STRONG STORMS WERE NEAR LAWRENCE AND DE SOTO KANSAS AND WERE PRODUCING PEA TO MARBAL SIZED HAIL WITH STRONG GUSTY WIND. AS THE STORMS CONTINUE TO TRACK TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST THEY WILL BE ENTERING THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA BETWEEN 300 AND 315 PM...MAINLY AFFECTING THE PARTS OF THE METRO AREA NORTH OF THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI RIVERS. SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE TONGANOXIE...LEAVENWORTH... PARKVILLE AND RIVERSIDE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP TO SEVERE LEVELS WITH LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAdGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STORMS AND LITEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES. HIBBERT
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:00 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-122045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 300 PM CST MON APR 12 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY AREA UNTIL 800 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... AT 255 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AND WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME VERY STRONG STORMS WERE NEAR LAWRENCE AND DE SOTO KANSAS AND WERE PRODUCING PEA TO MARBAL SIZED HAIL WITH STRONG GUSTY WIND. AS THE STORMS CONTINUE TO TRACK TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST THEY WILL BE ENTERING THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA BETWEEN 300 AND 315 PM...MAINLY AFFECTING THE PARTS OF THE METRO AREA NORTH OF THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI RIVERS. SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE TONGANOXIE...LEAVENWORTH... PARKVILLE AND RIVERSIDE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP TO SEVERE LEVELS WITH LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STORMS AND LITEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES. HIBBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 61 min |
| Apr 12, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Pettis | 37 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.