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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Topeka, KS

June 23, 1993Smith County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1993, 10:15 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1993, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1993, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 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, 3.3 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.

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

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KSC183-240345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1015 PM CDT WED JUN 23 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN SMITH COUNTY
 
AT 1015 PM CDT SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES NORTH
OF KENSINGTON OR 20 EAST OF PHILIPPSBURG MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
 
 
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.
 
ANDERSEN

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, Jun 23, 5:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 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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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

KSZ011-240100-

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 THANb
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, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Smith	68 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.