Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1993, 9:22 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1993, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1993, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1771 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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, Jun 23, 5:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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FLOOD STATEMENT ...RETRANSMITED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
534 PM CDT WED JUN 23 1993
...HIGH WATERS HAVE CLOSED A FEW ROADS IN SALINE AND MCHPERSON COUNTIES...
THE HIGHWAY PATROL HAS CLOSED K140 BETWEEN CRAWFORD AND K141 FOR THE NIGHT
AND K4 WEST AND SOUTH OF GYPSUM UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE IN SALINE COUNTY.
IN MCPHERSON COUNTY US56/K153 AT THE WESTERN EDGE OF MCPHERSON IS LIMITED TO
ONE LANE TRAFFIC FOR A 1/4 MILE.
SOME OTHER STREET FLOODING MAY BE OCCURING IN THESE COUNTIES DUE TO THE
HEAVY RAIN THAT FELL EARLIER TODAY. USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THIS EVENING
AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS FOR THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN
YOU THINK.
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The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Smith | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 40 min |
| Jun 23, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 30 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.