Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1993, 7:39 PM CDT for Clay County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1993, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1993, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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
- 2791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 020040 TORCNK KSC027-020115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 739 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...CLAY COUNTY AT 734 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED IN THE MORGANVILLE AREA OF 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLAY CENTER MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PERSONS IN MORGANVILLE SHOULD TAKE COVER. 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 FLOORh 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, 1 hour 33 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, 1 hour 32 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, 1 hour 31 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, 1 hour 29 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, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osborne | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osborne | 34 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.