Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1993, 8:52 PM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1993, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1993, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 5836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.2
- Supercell composite
- 29.0
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 23, 8:26 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
KSZ013>16-240225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 825 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 1993 ...WIDELY SCATTERED...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE... AT 820 PM A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SENECA. RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ANOTHER DEVELOPING STORM WAS TO THE NORTH OF MARYSVILLE ALONG THE BORDER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST ABOUT 20 MPH AND COULD MOVE INTO THE SABETHA VICINITY SHORTLY BU AROUND 9 PM. BECAUSE OF THE SATURATED GROUNDS ANY RAINS WIL L QUICKLY GO TO RUNOFF THUS PERSONS TRAVELLING OVER THE NORTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES THROUGH ABOUT 10 PM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER OVER RAODWAYS. FRANTZ
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 8:29 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
KSZ013>16-240225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 828 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 1993 ...WIDELY SCATTERED...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE... AT 820 PM A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SENECA. RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ANOTHER DEVELOPING STORM WAS TO THE NORTH OF MARYSVILLE ALONG THE BORDER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST ABOUT 20 MPH AND COULD MOVE INTO THE SABETHA VICINITY BY AROUND 9 PM. BECAUSE OF THE SATURATED GROUNDS ANY RAINS WILL QUICKLY GO TO RUNOFF THUS PERSONS TRAVELLING OVER THE NORTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES THROUGH ABOUT 10 PM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER OVER RAODWAYS. FRANTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 10:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 30 min |
| Jul 24, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Smith | 58 min |
| Jul 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne, Smith | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 68 min |
| Jul 24, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 28 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.