Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1993, 7:05 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1993, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osborne County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 3600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 16.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 020006 TORCNK KSC141-020030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 705 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN OSBORNE COUNTY AT 705 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF OSBORNE OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COVERT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PERSONS IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OSBORNE COUNTY SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!!! 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. NOLES
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, Jul 1, 6:06 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT RETRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 606 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST SECTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...ONE OF WHICH WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL NEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRPORT. THE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF OSBORNE. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES : .6:F;R3bO~ zl "B&62~JRZ\~v
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:07 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 606 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST SECTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...ONE OF WHICH WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELLNEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRPORT. THOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF OSBORNE. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:08 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT RETRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 606 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST SECTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...ONE OF WHICH WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELLNEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRPORT. TH OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF OSBORNE. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:10 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT RETRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 606 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST SECTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...ONE OF WHICH WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL NEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRPORT. THE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF OSBORNE. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NOLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osborne | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 36 min |
| Jul 1, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Russell | 61 min |
| Jul 1, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell, Mitchell | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Russell | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 26 min |
| Jul 1, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 28 min |
| Jul 1, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 11:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Russell | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Barton | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Saline | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Barton | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Saline | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 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.