Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 1993, 10:40 AM CDT for Clay County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 1993, 10:40 AM CDT (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 1993, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, KS, Washington County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Sep 21, 8:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 21, 8:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-211530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 930 AM CDT TUE SEP 21 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 930 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED NEWELY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS IN A 20 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR COURTLAND SOUTHWARD TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR BARNARD. MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR SCANDIA AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR GLASCO. NOLES
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 8:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-211545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 947 AM CDT TUE SEP 21 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS AROUND LOVEWELL LAKE... A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF DEADLY LIGH
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 9:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-211530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 930 AM CDT TUE SEP 21 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 930 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED NEWELY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS IN A 20 MILWIDE AREA FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR COURTLAND SOUTHWARD TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR BARNARD. MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR SCANDIA AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR GLASCO. NOLES
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 9:47 AM CDT, 53 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-211545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 947 AM CDT TUE SEP 21 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS AROUND LOVEWELL LAKE... A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED AROUND THE LOVEWELL LAKE AREA. PERSONS NEAR OR AROUND LOVEWELL LAKE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER AND GET AWAY FROM THE WATER. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE JEWELL COUNTY LINE INTO NEBRAKSA BY 955 AM CDT. NOLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 10:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 11:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 48 min |
| Sep 21, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Sep 21, 12:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 20 min |
| Sep 21, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 43 min |
| Sep 21, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 51 min |
| Sep 21, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 38 min |
| Sep 21, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 64 min |
| Sep 21, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Sep 21, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 32 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.