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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS

March 29, 1993Saline County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1993, 9:00 PM CST for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 1993, 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 1993, 9:30 PM CST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Saline County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1993-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 990 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1993-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
990 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 29, 7:36 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 8:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson28 min
Mar 29, 10:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie61 min
Mar 29, 11:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha66 min
Mar 30, 3:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage64 min
Mar 30, 4:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey53 min
Mar 30, 5:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas39 min
Mar 30, 5:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas40 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.