Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1993, 4:37 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1993, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1993, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Russell, KS | This tornado passed over open county and did mainly damage to crops and fence lines. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 2163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, May 7, 2:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 220 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS LIKELY TO OCCUR LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... WITH MOIST UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION AND APPROACHING DRIER AIR FROM THE WEST...THERE IS A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO DEVELOPE ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ENOUGH TO HAVE TORNADIC POTENTIAL. PERSONS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ARE URGED TO KEEP A WATCH ON THE WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES OR OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. BAKER
Special weather statement, May 7, 2:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 220 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS LIKELY TO OCCUR LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... WITH MOIST UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION AND APPROACHING DRIER AIR FROM THE WEST...THERE IS A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO DEVELOPE ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ENOUGH TO HAVE TORNADIC POTENTIAL. PERSONS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ARE URGED TO KEEP A WATCH ON THE WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES OR OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. BAKER
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:47 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 347 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM... WITH MOIST UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION AND APPROACHING DRIER AIR FROM THE WEST...THERE IS A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. LARGE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA. PERSONS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ARE URGED TO KEEP A WATCH ON THE WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES OR OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. BAKER
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:47 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 347 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM... WITH MOIST UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION AND APPROACHING DRIER AIR FROM THE WEST...THERE IS A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. LARGE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA. PERSONS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ARE URGED TO KEEP A WATCH ON THE WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES OR OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. BAKER
Special weather statement, May 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 400 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING VERY RAPIDLY OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS.... AT 355 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES EAST OF HAYS NEAR VICTORIA SOUTHWARD TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF HAYS NEAR RUSH CENTER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF BARTON AND RUSSELL COUNTIES BY 430 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROCHES MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SW
Special weather statement, May 7, 4:01 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 400 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING VERY RAPIDLY OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS.... AT 355 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES EAST OF HAYS NEAR VICTORIA SOUTHWARD TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF HAYS NEAR RUSH CENTER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF BARTON AND RUSSELL COUNTIES BY 430 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROCHES MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SURCE FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 30 min |
| May 6, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Atchison | 43 min |
| May 6, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Shawnee | 19 min |
| May 6, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 46 min |
| May 7, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 54 min |
| May 7, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 50 min |
| May 7, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Russell | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 48 min |
| May 7, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Barton | 35 min |
| May 7, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Smith | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lincoln, Russell | 45 min |
| May 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Barton | 32 min |
| May 7, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lincoln, Mitchell | 49 min |
| May 7, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 28 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.