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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Topeka, KS

June 6, 1993Douglas County, Jefferson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1993, 9:22 AM CDT for Douglas County, Jefferson County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1993, 9:22 AM CDT (14:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1993, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, KS, Jefferson County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 275 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1163 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 436 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
1163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
436 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
511 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLincoln53 min
Jun 6, 6:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay40 min
Jun 6, 6:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington25 min
Jun 6, 6:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall42 min
Jun 6, 7:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud11 min
Jun 6, 7:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Washington33 min
Jun 6, 7:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Riley42 min
Jun 6, 8:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie45 min
Jun 6, 9:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.