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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Topeka, KS

June 7, 1993Saline County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1993, 2:04 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1993, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1993, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Saline County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2023 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 340 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2023 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
358 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson44 min
Jun 7, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson33 min
Jun 7, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Riley44 min
Jun 7, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha, Pottawatomie45 min
Jun 7, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee45 min
Jun 7, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha32 min
Jun 7, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie35 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.