Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1993, 8:42 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1993, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 250142 SVRICT KSC021-250230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 842 PM CDT SAT APR 24 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...CHEROKEE COUNTY AT 836 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES EAST OF COFFEYVILLE TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PITTSBURG. THESE STORMS CONTAINED 1 TO 1 1/2 INCH HAIL..50-60 MPH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. THE STORMS WILL HIT COLUMBUS WHICH IS 15 MILES SOUTH OF PITTSBURG SHORTLY. IF YOU LIVE IN COLUMBUS TAKE COVER NOW IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE >STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. ES
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, 2 hours 3 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 66 min |
| Apr 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Crawford | 31 min |
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.