Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1993, 4:07 PM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1993, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1993, 4:27 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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
- 943 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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, Sep 2, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-022055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 253 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #840 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR CLAY AND DICKINSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 255 PM RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF A 35 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS ANDTHUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLAYCENTER TO SALINA TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF CLAY CENTER AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF CLAY CENTER OR JUST NORTHWEST OF WAKEFIELD. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND THE BAND OF PRECIPITATION MOVES EAST AT 20 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION. SW
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 2:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-022055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 253 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #840 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR CLAY AND DICKINSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 255 PM RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF A 35 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS ANDTHUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLAYCENTER TO SALINA TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF CLAY CENTER AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF CLAY CENTER OR JUST NORTHWEST OF WAKEFIELD. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND THE BAND OF PRECIPITATION MOVES EAST AT 20 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHE^R WEATHER INFORMATION. SW
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:11 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-022115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 306 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A GOOD PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... A LINE OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES EAT OF TOPEKA LEAR LAWRENCE TO EMPORIA WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL CELLS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE EMPORIA...MELVERN LAKE...POMONA LAKE... POMONA AND BALDWIN CITY AREAS BY 4 O'CLOCK. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAINS... WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SMALL HAIL. OTHER SHOWERS AND ISOLDATED THUNDERSTORMS EzXTENDED FROM ATCHISON TO JUNCTION CITY. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AN MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR THROUGH 415 PM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. WOYNICK
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:15 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-022115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 306 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A GOOD PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... A LINE OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES EAT OF TOPEKA LEAR LAWRENCE TO EMPORIA WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL CELLS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE EMPORIA...MELVERN LAKE...POMONA LAKE... POMONA AND BALDWIN CITY AREAS BY 4 O'CLOCK. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAINS... WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SMALL HAIL. OTHER SHOWERS AND ISOLDATED THUNDERSTORMS E~XTENDED FROM ATCHISON TO JUNCTION CITY. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AN MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR THROUGH 415 PM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. WOYNICK
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:46 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-022150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 346 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR CLAY...DICKINSON AND MCPHERSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 344 PM RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL ANDNORTH CENTRAL KANSAS GENERALLY TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARYSVILLE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTH- EAST OF SALINA NEAR TALMAGE AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF ABILENE...JUST WEST OF NAVARREIN DICKINSON COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION. SW
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:47 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-022150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 346 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR CLAY...DICKINSON AND MCPHERSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 344 PM RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL ANDNORTH CENTRAL KANSAS GENERALLY TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARYSVILLE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTH- EAST OF SALINA NEAR TALMAGE AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF ABILENE...JUST WEST OF NAVARREIN DICKINSON COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR 0FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION. SW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 31 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.