Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1993, 7:51 PM CDT for Clay County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1993, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1993, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 839 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
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, 3:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 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, 4 hours 4 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, 3 hours 51 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, 3 hours 50 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, 2 hours 29 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
Special weather statement, May 7, 7:24 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
KSZ013>016-080130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 724 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS ARE APPROACHING NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 715 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BECOMING NUMEROUS OVER CENTRAL KANSAS AND WERE DEVELOPING AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE MARYSVILLE TO MANHATTAN AND COUNCIL GROVE AREAS BEFORE 9 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POT\ENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND PERHAPS TORNADOES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ELSEWHERE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS EVENING AND WILL BECOME NUMEROUS BY MIDNIGHT. LAPLANTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Rice | 51 min |
| May 7, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 66 min |
| May 7, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 51 min |
| May 7, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 58 min |
| May 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris | 35 min |
| May 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 35 min |
| May 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 46 min |
| May 8, 4:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Morris | 8 hr |
| May 8, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 18 min |
| May 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 7 hr |
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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.