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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Wichita, KS

April 24, 1993Cherokee County, Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1993, 7:24 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 1993, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 1993, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1993-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 590 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1993-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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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, Apr 24, 6:39 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-250030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
635 PM CDT SAT APR 25 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

AT 633 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS.
THE STORMS WERE LOCATED 25 MILES EAST OF EL DORADO NEAR EUREKA AND 25 MILES
NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE NEAR LONGTON. THESE STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS
AND SMALL HAIL. THE STORM NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE WILL REACH CHANUTE AROUND
730 PM. IF YOU LIVE IN OR SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE LISTEN FOR LATE STATEMENTS AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
THAT OCCURRED OVER MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF KANSAS EAST OF A LINE FROM
CONCORDIA TO ARKANSAS CITY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
.
*SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH #155 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PARTS
OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS.
ES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCrawford31 min
Apr 24, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCherokee48 min

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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.