Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1993, 8:51 AM CST for Chase County, Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1993, 8:51 AM CST (14:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1993, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chase County, KS, Greenwood County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1260 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 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 281452 SVRICT KSC017-073-125-281600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 851 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...CHASE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...GREENWOOD COUNTY...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 850 AM CST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA...TO 15 MILES WEST OF COFFEYVILLE. THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED 1 INCH HAIL OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...AND IS MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN WAYSIDE...CEDAR POINT...AND EUREKA...ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOULD MOVE TO A STORM SHELTER NOW TO PROTECT AGAINST LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS. HYSELL
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, Mar 28, 5:04 AM CST, 3 hours 47 minutes before
KSZ009-012-281200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 503 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 500 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. THIS STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED 10 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN WICHITA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WINDS NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR...HEAVY RAINS AND LIGHTNING. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN A 50 MILE WIDE ARE EXTENDING FROM NEAR HUTCHINSON...TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA. HYSELL
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:33 AM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ009-012-281230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 533 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE THOUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 530 AM CST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTAINING PEA SIZE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...TORRENTIAL RAINS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WERE OBSERVED OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS FOUND 15 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA...NEAR PARK CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH NEWTON BEFORE 600 AM...ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS FOUND NEAR WICHITA...THIS STORM PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL AT THE MID-CONTINENT AIRPORT AT 522 AM. PEOPLE IN VALLEY CENTER AND SEDGWICK SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS TO PROTECT FROM THE SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS IN A 80 MILE WIDE AREA EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA...TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF PRATT AND NORTHWEST INTO WESTERN KANSAS. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY HAD RAPIDLY INCREASED SINCE 430 AM. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD EXIT SOUTH CENTAL KANSAS BY 10 AM...BUT MAY RE-DEVELOP LATER IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HYSELL
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:13 AM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ009-012-281300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 612 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 605 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED AN LINE OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR KINGMAN...30 MILES WEST OF WICHITA TO SUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY...35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUPR AND WILL EFFECT SEDGWICK... SOUTHERN RENO AND SUMNER COUNTIES BETWEEN 630 AND 7 AM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...BE PREPARED FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. OGREN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 6:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 7:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 7:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 7:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 7:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Harvey, Marion | 64 min |
| Mar 28, 8:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 8:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 8:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 69 min |
| Mar 28, 8:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 10:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 10:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 10:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 68 min |
| Mar 28, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 11:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 61 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.