Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1993, 9:33 AM CST for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1993, 9:33 AM CST (15:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1993, 10:15 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 1260 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 281535 SVRTOP KSC111-281615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 933 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...LYON COUNTY AT 930 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 SOUTH OF EMPORIA AND IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL PASS NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF OLPE AND EMPORIA BY 10 AM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AS IT MOVED THROUGH SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AS LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. KISNER
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, Mar 28, 5:30 AM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 530 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...AN EARLY SPRING STORM WILL BE TAKING AIM ON KANSAS BY TUESDAY... AN EARLY SPRING STORM CAPABLE OF BOTH HEAVY SNOW AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THREATENING KANSAS BY TUESDAY. THE STORM IS CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND WON`T BE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES UNTIL MONDAY. A COLD HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO PLUNGE SOUTH OVER THE HIGH PLAINS MONDAY NIGHT. AT THE SAME TIME A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. COLD WET SNOW COULD OVERSPREAD THE HIGH PLAINS OF KANSAS LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AS NORTH WINDS INCREASE. THIS CHANGE TO COLD WET WEATHER WILL BE ESPECIALLY HAZARDOUS TO YOUNG LIVESTOCK. AT THE SAME TIME...THUNDERSTORMS COULD ERUPT OVER THE EASTERN PLAINS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG. PLEASE KEEP UPDATED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS EARLY SPRING STORM. KAYS
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:54 AM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-281300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 553 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 550 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A 70 MILE WIDE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING WEST OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO RUSSELL TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:55 AM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-281400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 653 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TREK ACROSS THE REGION... AT 550 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A 30 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF SMITH CENTER TO RUSSELL TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND OR 5 MILES EAST OF ELLINWOOD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:58 AM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-281400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 657 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TREK ACROSS THE REGION... AT 650 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A 30 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF SMITH CENTER TO RUSSELL TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND OR 5 MILES EAST OF ELLINWOOD. R THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 9:07 AM CST, 26 minutes before
KSZ013>016-281600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 907 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS POSTED UNTIL 1 PM FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM EMPORIA TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA NEAR GARNETT. AT 9 AM A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ABILENE SOUTHEAST TO 40 MILES EAST OF WICHITA NEAR EUREKA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE EMPORIA AND BURLINGTON AREAS BY 10 AM. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS. LAPLANTE
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 9:09 AM CST, 24 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-281600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 908 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM NEAR BELLEVILLE TO CONCORDIA TO JUST EAST OF SALINA INTO ABILENE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SMALL HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED AT CONCORDIA...BURR OAK AND SALINA DURING THE PAST 20 MINUTES$ ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. NOLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 40 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.