Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1993, 6:32 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1993, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Republic County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 2205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1069 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 24, 5:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-242315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 514 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 510 PM RADAR INDICATED NEWLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ALONG THE WESTERN BORDERS OF OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES FROM NEAR NATOMA NORTHWARD TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF KIRWIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT 510 PM WERE ONLY PRODUCING LIGHT RAIN AND SOME LIGHTNING...BUT SHOULD STRENGTHEN FURTHER THROUGH 6 PM AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS WESTERN OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORMS HAS PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 5:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-242315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 514 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 510 PM RADAR INDICATED NEWLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ALONG THE WESTERN BORDERS OF OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES FROM NEAR NATOMA NORTHWARD TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF KIRWIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT 510 PM WERE ONLY PRODUCING LIGHT RAIN AND SOME LIGHTNING...BUT SHOULD STRENGTHEN FURTHER THROUGH 6 PM AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS WESTERN OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORMS HAS PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 6:09 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-250015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 609 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS POSTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 605 PM CDT NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE ATMOSPHERE HOWEVER REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH IS POSTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR MAINLY THAT PORTION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF LINE FROM THE NEBRASKA BORDER 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE...TO MANHATTAN...TO JUNCTION CITY. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPING DURIPNG THE EVENING AND HAVE A PLAN FOR SEEKING SHELTER SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES. FRANTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 68 min |
| 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every 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.