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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Topeka, KS

September 18, 1993Smith County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 1993, 8:48 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 18, 1993, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired: Sep 18, 1993, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Smith County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 244 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1042 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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 18, 5:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 18, 6:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 18, 6:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-190100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
658 PM CDT SAT SEP 18 1993

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM FOR SMITH...OSBORNE...RUSSELL AND BARTON
COUNTIES...

AT 655 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER
CENTRAL KANSAS GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES WEST OF
GREAT BEND...TO WACONDA LAKE (35 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA)...
TO THE CITY OF JEWELL (25 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA). THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORM WERE OVER WACONDA LAKE.

NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...BUT
CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
AND POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES IN THE WATCH AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER UPDATES
ON THIS PARTICULAR WEATHER SITUATION.
.
BAKER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 18, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osborne	38 min
Sep 18, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Osborne	38 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every 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.