Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 20, 1993, 8:03 PM CST for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1993, 8:03 PM CST (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1993, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cowley County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 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 210205 SVRICT KSC035-210300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 803 PM CST SAT FEB 20 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...COWLEY COUNTY AT 800 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS LOCATED BETWEEN ARKANSAS CITY AND WINFIELD...ALSO JUST NORTH OF DEXTER...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARKANSAS CITY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. HACKNEY ...CAMBRIDGE...AND DEXTER ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THESE AREAS...MOVE TO INSIDE SHELTER NOW. 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. HEDGES
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, Feb 20, 7:16 PM CST, 47 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-210215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 713 PM CST SAT FEB 20 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ALONG THE KANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER... ...DENSE FOG IS CREATING A TRAVEL HAZARD ACROSS SOUTH KANSAS... SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET...THUNDERSTORMS BEGAN DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. BY 700 PM...THESE THUNDERSTORMS BEGAN TO CROSS THE BORDER INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AT 710 PM...THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRATT...TO 20 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...MAINLY SOUTH OF WICHITA ...DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO SPREAD INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS...ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER WEST OF COFFEYVILLE... BY 8 PM. DENSE FOG HAS REDEVELOPED OVER MOST AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...REDUCING VESIBILITIES TO LESS THAN 1/4 MILE. IF YOU MUST DRIVE TONIGHT...ALLOW EXTRA DRIVING TIME AND SLOW DOWM. USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS WHEN DRIVING IN FOG. HEDGESP
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 7:36 PM CST, 27 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-210230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CST SAT FEB 20 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO RAKE ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 730 PM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINS ...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUD LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR... AN SMALL HAIL WERE OBSERVED ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN KANSAS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF COFFEYVILLE AND JUST NORTHWEST OF ARKANSAS CITY. PERSONS IN BURDEN AND MOUND VALLEY SHOULD BE READY FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING BY MOVING INDOORS UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS 65 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRATT TO NEAR COFFEYVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS._ HYSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 38 min |
| Feb 20, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 30 min |
| Feb 20, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 25 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.