Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1993, 7:35 AM CST for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1993, 7:35 AM CST (13:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1993, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County McPherson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, 5:00 AM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:30 AM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 530 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...AN EARLY SPRING STORM WILL BE TAKING AIM ON KANSAS BY TUESDAY... AN EARLY SPRING STORM CAPABLE OF BOTH HEAVY SNOW AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THREATENING KANSAS BY TUESDAY. THE STORM IS CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND WON`T BE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES UNTIL MONDAY. A COLD HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO PLUNGE SOUTH OVER THE HIGH PLAINS MONDAY NIGHT. AT THE SAME TIME A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. COLD WET SNOW COULD OVERSPREAD THE HIGH PLAINS OF KANSAS LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AS NORTH WINDS INCREASE. THIS CHANGE TO COLD WET WEATHER WILL BE ESPECIALLY HAZARDOUS TO YOUNG LIVESTOCK. AT THE SAME TIME...THUNDERSTORMS COULD ERUPT OVER THE EASTERN PLAINS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG. PLEASE KEEP UPDATED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS EARLY SPRING STORM. KAYS
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:54 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-281300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 553 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 550 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A 70 MILE WIDE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING WEST OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO RUSSELL TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:55 AM CST, 40 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-281400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 653 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TREK ACROSS THE REGION... AT 550 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A 30 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF SMITH CENTER TO RUSSELL TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND OR 5 MILES EAST OF ELLINWOOD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:58 AM CST, 37 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-281400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 657 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TREK ACROSS THE REGION... AT 650 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A 30 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF SMITH CENTER TO RUSSELL TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND OR 5 MILES EAST OF ELLINWOOD. R THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 9:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 42 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.