Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1993, 6:46 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1993, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osborne County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, Jul 1, 6:06 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT RETRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 606 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST SECTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...ONE OF WHICH WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL NEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRPORT. THE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF OSBORNE. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES : .6:F;R3bO~ zl "B&62~JRZ\~v
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:07 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 606 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST SECTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...ONE OF WHICH WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELLNEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRPORT. THOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF OSBORNE. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:08 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT RETRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 606 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST SECTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...ONE OF WHICH WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELLNEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRPORT. TH OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF OSBORNE. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:10 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT RETRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 606 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST SECTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...ONE OF WHICH WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL NEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRPORT. THE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF OSBORNE. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Riley | 29 min |
| Jun 30, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 56 min |
| Jun 30, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Riley | 28 min |
| Jun 30, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 23 min |
| Jun 30, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 38 min |
| Jun 30, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Geary | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 30, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 22 min |
| Jun 30, 10:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 11:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne, Russell | 44 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.