Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1993, 8:56 PM CDT for Jackson County, Pottawatomie County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1993, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 3575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.9
- Supercell composite
- 20.9
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 9, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
KSZ013>016-100115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 713 PM CDT FRI JUL 9 1993 ...A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 710 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE PRECIPITATION WAS CONFINED MAINLY ALONG A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM...PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN NEAR TUTTLE CREEK RESEVOIR. PERSONS ON TUTTLE CREEK RESERVOIR SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER INDOORS AND GET OFF THE LAKE UNTIL THE STORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MPH. THE CITIES OF HOLTON AND WESTMORELAND MAY SEE A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM BY 8 PM. + BARLOW
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 8:14 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
KSZ013>016-100215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 813 PM CDT FRI JUL 9 1993 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 810 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA NEAR VALLEY FALLS TO 30 MILES NORTH OF MANHATTAN NEAR BLUE RAPIDS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS...LIKELY PRODUCING BREIF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME PEA SIZE HAIL..WERE LOCATED 15 TO 20 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA NEAR HOYT AND MAYETTA. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THE CITIES OF FRANKFORT...HOLTON AND VALLEY FALLS CAN EXPECT TO SEE A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM BY 9 PM. BARLOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 11:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 36 min |
| Jul 10, 12:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 26 min |
| Jul 10, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 55 min |
| Jul 10, 5:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 112 min |
Nearby
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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.