Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1993, 10:47 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1993, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1993, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harvey County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 2058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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, Jul 13, 7:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-140135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 748 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 735 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON...TO SALINA...TO ABILENE. A THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL HARVEY 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM GREAT BEND... TO HAYS...ON NORTHEAST TO BE BETWEEN JUNCTION CITY AND CONCORDIA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. COVERAGE AND INTENSITY HAS INCREASED SINCE 630 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS. LFW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-140135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 748 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 735 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON...TO SALINA...TO ABILENE. A THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL HARVEY 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM GREAT BEND... TO HAYS...ON NORTHEAST TO BE BETWEEN JUNCTION CITY AND CONCORDIA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. COVERDAGE AND INTENSITY HAS INCREASED SINCE 630 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS. LFW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-140135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 755 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 735 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON...TO SALINA...TO ABILENE. THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL HARVEY COUNTY 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM GREAT BEND... TO HAYS...ON NORTHEAST TO BE BETWEEN JUNCTION CITY AND CONCORDIA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS. LFW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-140135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 755 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 735 PM CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE NORTH OF MCPHERSON...TO SALINA...TO ABILENE. THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL HARVEY COUNTY 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM GREAT BEND... TO HAYS...ON NORTHEAST TO BE BETWEEN JUNCTION CITY AND CONCORDIA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOURz. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS. LFW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 73 min |
| Jul 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jul 13, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 11:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 5 hr |
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.