Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1993, 5:40 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Great Bend, KS | This toranado touched down very briefly over open country and caused only minor damage to one farmstead. |
| May 7, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Great Bend, KS | This tornado touched down just long enough to cause some roof and structural damage to a manufacturing plant just to the west of Great Bend. |
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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 tornado 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, 2:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 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, 1 hour 53 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, 1 hour 53 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, 1 hour 40 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, 1 hour 39 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, 5:22 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
KSZ013>016-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 520 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 AT 515 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MARIETTA AND OKETO AREAS BY 545 PM. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO SOUTHERN NEBRASKA BY 550 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE INDOORS. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. WOYNICK
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, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Russell | 68 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, 5:43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.