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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS

May 7, 1993Barton County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1993, 6:13 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 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 23:18 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, 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, 11.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 072316
TORCNK
KSC009-072345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
613 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN BARTON COUNTY
 
AT 614 PM NUMEROUS FUNNELL CLOUDS AND BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS WERE
BEING REPORTED IN THE GREAT BEND AREA. PERSONS IN THE GREAT BEND AREA
SHOULD REMAIN IN A SHELTERED AREA.
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
BAKER

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, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Barton	35 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, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Lincoln, Mitchell	49 min
May 7, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Smith	28 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.