Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1993, 8:42 AM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1993, 8:42 AM CDT (13:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1993, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 231344 RRA SVRICT KSC015-231430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 842 AM CDT WED JUN 23 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH OVER 60 MILE AN HOUR AND GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN BUTLER THROUGH 930 AM... AT 840 AM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF EL DORADO TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF EL DORADO. THESE WINDS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MILE AN HOUR AND GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS EL DORADO LAKE. PEOPLE ON EL DORADO LAKE AND IN EL DORADO STATE PARK SHOULD MOVE INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER. BOATERS ON THE LAKE SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SZHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CLC
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, 2 hours 28 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, 2 hours 26 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, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 7:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 67 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
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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.