Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1993, 7:45 AM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1993, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1993, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harvey County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jun 23, 6:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-231215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 614 AM CDT WED JUN 23 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD MARION AND CHASE COUNTIES... AT 612 AM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEARING THE NORTHERN EDGE OF MARION AND CHASE COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN ...PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR OUT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF LAWRENCE...TO 15 MILES NORTH OF MCPHERSON...AND WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...MOVE INDOORS TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND REMAIN UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. IF YOU WILL BE DRIVING IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...PREPARE FOR NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY IN HEAVY RAIN...AND AVOID DRIVING THROUGH WATER COVERED AREAS. HEDGES
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 6:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-231215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 614 AM CDT WED JUN 23 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD MARION AND CHASE COUNTIES... AT 612 AM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEARING THE NORTHERN EDGE OF MARION AND CHASE COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN ...PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR OUT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF LAWRENCE...TO 15 MILES NORTH OF MCPHERSON...AND WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...MOVE INDOORS TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND REMAIN UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. IF YOU WILL BE DRIVING IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...PREPARE FOR NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY IN HE&AVY RAIN...AND AVOID DRIVING THROUGH WATER COVERED AREAS. HEDGES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 42 min |
| Jun 23, 7:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 9:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 11:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 11:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 12:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 54 min |
| Jun 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.