Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1993, 3:01 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1993, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1993, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 1303 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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, Jul 17, 11:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
KSZ007-008-010-011-172300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1100 AM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS BARTON RICE MCPHERSON RUSSELL ELLSWORTH SALINE DICKINSON LINCOLN AND IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SMITH JEWELL REPUBLIC WASHINGTON OSBORNE MITCHELL CLOUD CLAY OTTAWA SYNOPSIS: AN MOIST...UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE REGION TODAY. WITH OUTFLOW BAOUNDARIES FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN NEBRASKA AFFECTING THE REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND AN APPROACHING UPPER ATMPSPHERIC DISTURBANCE THIS EVENING... CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TODAY ACROSS THE REGION. SOME STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...PARTICULARILY THIS EVENING...AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 11:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
KSZ007-008-010-011-172300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1100 AM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS BARTON RICE MCPHERSON RUSSELL ELLSWORTH SALINE DICKINSON LINCOLN AND IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SMITH JEWELL REPUBLIC WASHINGTON OSBORNE MITCHELL CLOUD CLAY OTTAWA SYNOPSIS: AN MOIST...UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE REGION TODAY. WITH OUTFLOW BAOUNDARIES FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN NEBRASKA AFFECTING THE REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND AN APPROACHING UPPER ATMPSPHERIC DISTURBANCE THIS EVENING... CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TODAY ACROSS THE REGION. SOME STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...PARTICULARILY THIS EVENING...AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 12:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-171830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1243 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF SMITH COUNTY... AT 1240 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SMITH COUNTY... EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF KENSINGTON TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE COUNTY.THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SMITH CENTER...OR 40 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED TO THE WEST OF LINE FROM LINCOLN NEBRASKA TO GENEVA NEBRASKA TO 15 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOACALLY HEAVY RAINS CAUSING FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 12:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-171830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1243 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF SMITH COUNTY... AT 1240 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SMITH COUNTY... EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF KENSINGTON TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE COUNTY.THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SMITH CENTER...OR 40 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED TO THE WEST OF LINE FROM LINCOLN NEBRASKA TO GENEVA NEBRASKA TO 15 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOACALLY HEAVY RAINS CAUSING FLOODING OF` LOW LYING AREAS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-171930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 136 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DROPPING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS IN PORTIONS OF JEWELL COUNTY... AT 130 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER IN NORTHWESTERN JEWELL COUNTY JUST WEST OF BURR OAK OR 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD DECREASED SLIGHTLY IN INTENSITY SINCE 115 PM...BUT ARE STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT CONTINUED TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. PERSONS IN NORTHERN JEWELL COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF PERIODS HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY CAUSING LOWLAND FLOODING...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF NECESSARY. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-171930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 136 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DROPPING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS IN PORTIONS OF JEWELL COUNTY... AT 130 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER IN NORTHWESTERN JEWELL COUNTY JUST WEST OF BURR OAK OR 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD DECREASED SLIGHTLY IN INTENSITY SINCE 115 PM...BUT ARE STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT CONTINUED TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. PERSONS IN NORTHERN JEWELL COUNTY SHOULD BE PR*EPARED FOR BRIEF PERIODS HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY CAUSING LOWLAND FLOODING...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF NECESSARY. BAKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell, Republic | 47 min |
| Jul 17, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 48 min |
| Jul 17, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 68 min |
| Jul 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 5:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 6:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 3 hr |
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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.