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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Wichita, KS

July 6, 1993Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1993, 11:43 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1993, 11:43 PM CDT (04:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1993, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Labette County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 8.5

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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

Local storm report, Jul 6, 10:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	30 min
Jul 6, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	51 min
Jul 6, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	43 min
Jul 6, 8:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	3 hr
Jul 6, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	38 min
Jul 6, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sedgwick	59 min
Jul 6, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	59 min
Jul 6, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	47 min
Jul 6, 9:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	3 hr
Jul 7, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cherokee	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every 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.