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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Wichita, KS

May 7, 1993Chase County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1993, 11:16 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1993, 11:16 PM CDT (04:16 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1993, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Chase County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 1776 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.8

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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, May 7, 8:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 8:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 9:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 10:35 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 10:35 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1035 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993

...TORNADO WATCH #219 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR
   PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
   TONIGHT...

AT 1030 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 50
MILES AN HOUR...AND HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH
CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STORMS WERE WITHIN A 40 TO 70 MILE WIDE AREA
EXTENDING FROM CONCORDIA SOUTH THROUGH MCPHERSON AND WICHITA...AND ON
ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA BORDER JUST WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY.

THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING WITHIN A 15 MILE WIDE BAND FROM HUTCHINSON
SOUTH THROUGH WICHITA...AND ALONG INTERSTATE 35 INTO OKLAHOMA.

SOME DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND 50 MILE HOUR WINDS
WILL BE MOVING ACROSS WESTERN COWLEY COUNTY UP UNTIL 11 OCLOCK.
>
THE THUNDERSTORMS BISECTING THE STATE OF KANSAS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH...
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...WITH RAINFALL MODERATE TO
HEAVY THROUGH MUCH OF THE AREA.

SOME SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS EARLIER THIS
EVENING....BUT AT THE PRESENT TIME THE MAIN THREAT IS THE HEAVY
DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL FROM PEA TO MARBLE SIZE...AND WINDS TO 50 MILES
AN HOUR.

KEEP IN MIND FLOODING IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY WITH THESE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCERS
AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO THE ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN AREA INCLUDING WICHITA.
SMALL STREAMS MAY FILL RAPIDLY AND ROADS MAY BECOME FLOODED QUICKLY. DO
NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS...THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.

J.CHRISTENSON

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 9:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	39 min
May 7, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	51 min
May 7, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	58 min
May 7, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood	59 min
May 8, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	47 min
May 8, 2:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	6 hr
May 8, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	46 min
May 8, 3:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	5 hr
May 8, 8:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	56 min
May 8, 8:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	69 min
May 8, 9:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	58 min
May 8, 9:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	47 min
May 8, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	42 min
May 8, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson	63 min
May 8, 9:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler	57 min
May 8, 9:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	63 min
May 8, 10:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Labette, Neosho	52 min
May 8, 2:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	6 hr
May 8, 2:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	6 hr
May 8, 4:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chase	4 hr
May 8, 6:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	3 hr

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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.