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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wichita, KS

June 8, 1993Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1993, 5:22 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1993, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1993, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Cowley County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1993-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3627 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1993-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 285 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.3
Supercell composite
21.7

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion59 min
Jun 7, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk61 min
Jun 8, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler65 min
Jun 8, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner63 min
Jun 8, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler68 min
Jun 8, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner39 min
Jun 8, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler53 min
Jun 8, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood64 min
Jun 8, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley68 min
Jun 8, 4:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler3 hr
Jun 8, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner56 min
Jun 8, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood, Woodson60 min

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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.