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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS

April 12, 1993Douglas County, Jefferson County, Shawnee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1993, 12:54 PM CDT for Douglas County, Jefferson County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 12, 1993, 12:54 PM CDT (17:54 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Shawnee County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1394 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Apr 12, 11:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 12, 11:54 AM CDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Apr 12, 12:54 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-121845-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1254 PM CDT MON APR 12 1993

AT 1250 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A 20 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF
SALINA NEAR DELPHOS TO 10 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WITHIN
THIS AREA WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF SALINA JUST EAST OF
BENNINGTON AND 20 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF SALINA JUST NORTH OF ABILENE AND
WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
AS THEY MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

ANOTHER BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED TO THE NORTH AND
WEST OF A LINE FROM FAIRBURY NEBRASKA TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG NEAR
STOCKTON.  THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MODERATE SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY
SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PACKETT

Special weather statement, Apr 12, 12:54 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-121845-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1254 PM CDT MON APR 12 1993

AT 1250 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A 20 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF
SALINA NEAR DELPHOS TO 10 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WITHIN
THIS AREA WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF SALINA JUST EAST OF
BENNINGTON AND 20 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF SALINA JUST NORTH OF ABILENE AND
WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
AS THEY MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

ANOTHER BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED TO THE NORTH AND
WEST OF A LINE FROM FAIRBURY NEBRASKA TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG NEAR
STOCKTON.  THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MODERATE SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY
SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PACKETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	35 min
Apr 12, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Osage, Shawnee	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every 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.