Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1993, 7:41 AM CST for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1993, 7:41 AM CST (13:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1993, 8:30 AM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sedgwick County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1260 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Mar 28, 5:04 AM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
KSZ009-012-281200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 503 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 500 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. THIS STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED 10 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN WICHITA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WINDS NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR...HEAVY RAINS AND LIGHTNING. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN A 50 MILE WIDE ARE EXTENDING FROM NEAR HUTCHINSON...TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA. HYSELL
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:33 AM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:13 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
KSZ009-012-281300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 612 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 605 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED AN LINE OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR KINGMAN...30 MILES WEST OF WICHITA TO SUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY...35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUPR AND WILL EFFECT SEDGWICK... SOUTHERN RENO AND SUMNER COUNTIES BETWEEN 630 AND 7 AM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...BE PREPARED FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. OGREN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 6:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 7:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 7:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 7:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Harvey, Marion | 64 min |
| Mar 28, 8:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 8:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 8:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 69 min |
| Mar 28, 8:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 69 min |
| Mar 28, 8:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 10:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 10:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 10:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 68 min |
| Mar 28, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 11:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 61 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.