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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1993, 9:34 PM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1993, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1993, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Atchison County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 3233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
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 10, 3:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-110230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 352 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN A POSSIBILITY OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE AND PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. HEAVY RAINS APPEAR MOST LIKELY OVER NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS AT THIS TIME THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE NIGHT. EVEN THROUGH A RELATIVE DRY 24 HOURS HAS BEEN EXPERIENCED ACROSS THE REGION...MANY STREAMS AND RIVERS ARE FULL OR NEAR BANKFULL. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVERNIGHT WILL OBVIOUSLY AGGRIVATE THE PROBLEM. THOSE PERSONS ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD MONITOR THIS WEATHER SITUATION OVERNIGHT AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
KSZ013>016-100030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 615 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS... ANOTHER SINGLE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED 35 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA NEAR HOLTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEMAHA COUNTY MOVED INTO NEBRASKA AND WEAKENED. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE TEMPERATURE AT 10 PM WILL FALL TO AROUND 80 DEGREES WITH A MORNING LOW IN THE LOW 70S. A SOUTH WIND OF 10 TO 20 MPH WILL PREVAIL.
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ013>016-100045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 643 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS... A STORNG THUNDEERSTORM CONTINUED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIAWATHA. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS HIAWATHA BY 7 PM. THIS STORM WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WIND TO 40 MPH...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING 25 TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR CIRCLEVILLE. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE OVER WETMORE AND HORTON BETWEEN 7 AND 730 PM. THE TEMPERATURE AT 10 PM WILL FALL TO AROUND 80 DEGREES WITH A MORNING LOW IN THE LOW 70S. A SOUTH WIND OF 10 TO 20 MPH WILL PREVAIL.
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 8:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 116 min |
| Jul 10, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 42 min |
| Jul 10, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison | 52 min |
| Jul 11, 11:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 11:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Russell | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 12:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Saline | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 12:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Russell | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 1:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Ellsworth | 2 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Ellsworth, Russell, Saline | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Barton | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Saline | 115 min |
| Jul 11, 3:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | McPherson | 2 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Saline | 97 min |
| Jul 11, 4:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Rice | 112 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.