Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1993, 7:14 PM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1993, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 030015 TORTOP KSC111-030045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 714 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY AT 714 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE TURNPIKE INTERCHANGE WEST OF EMPORIA. THIS STORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS EMPORIA BETWEEN 715 AND 730. PEOPLE IN EMPORIA SHOULD BE IN A STORM SHELTER NOW! 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 OUxTSIDE...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. BILLS
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 2, 5:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-022215-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
500 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1993
...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH 11 PM
CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BARTON...LINCOLN...DICKINSON...RUSSELL...
MCPHERSON...SALINE...ELLSWORTH...RICE...CLAY...CLOUD...OTTAWA...MITCHELL...
AND OSBORNE...THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT BEGINNING AT 515 PM CDT...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS...
AT 500 PM CDT RADAR INDICATES A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST
CENTRAL KANSAS 50 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL KANSAS OR NEAR JUST SOUTH
OF HAYS. NO OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING AT THIS TIME. PERSONS
ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS POSSIBLE DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
...NOLES...Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-022315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 508 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 500 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED 15 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM OTTAWA WEST TO JUST NORTH OF EMPORIA TO 15 MILES SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF COUNCIL GROVE. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF COUNCIL GROVE ALONG THE CHASE MORRIS COUNTY LINE...AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OTTAWA. THESE STORMS LIKELY CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAINS ...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD GET INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THE STORMS... AND LIGHTNING KILLS MORE PEOPLE...ON AVERAGE EACH YEAR...THAN DO TORNADOES. BILLS
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-030000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
555 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1993
...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH 11 PM
CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BARTON...LINCOLN...DICKINSON...RUSSELL...
MCPHERSON...SALINE...ELLSWORTH...RICE...CLAY...CLOUD...OTTAWA...MITCHELL...
AND OSBORNE...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS...
AT 555 PM CDT RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF HAYS OR 40 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL MOVING ONLY
SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS
DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER DICKINSON COUNTY JUST EAST OF HOPE OR 20 MILES
TO THE SOUTH OF ABILENE. PERSONS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL
KANSAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
...NOLES...Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-030000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 558 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 555 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA NEAR PRINCENTON...TO 10 MILES NORTH OF EMPORIA...TO SOUTH OF COUNCIL GROVE ALONG THE MORRIS/CHASE COUNTY LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ALONG THE MORRIS COUNTY/CHASE COUNTY LINE. THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE LINE HAS SAGGED SOUTHWARD AT AROUND 10 MPH WHILE THE WESTERN PORTION HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY. VERY HEAVY RAINS...SOME PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR WERE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE HEAVY RAINS WITH THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE CAUTIONED TO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER ACROSS ROADWASY...IT MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU REALIZE. BILLS
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-030000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 651 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH 11 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BARTON...LINCOLN...DICKINSON...RUSSELL... MCPHERSON...SALINE...ELLSWORTH...RICE...CLAY...CLOUD...OTTAWA...MITCHELL... AND OSBORNE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 651 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED WEAKENING THUNDERSTORMS OVER DICKINSON COUNTY 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ABILENE AND ENTERING INTO SOUTHWEST OSBORNE AND NORTHWEST RUSSELL COUNTY NEAR NATOMA. MOVEMENT CONTINUES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 1t5 MPH. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE REGION...SOME OF WHICH COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS WEATHER SITUATION AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NOLES
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:57 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 657 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 1993 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LYON COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM CDT... AT 655 \PM CDT...RADAR WAS CONTINUING TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO TO THE WEST OF EMPORIA JUST TO THE NORTH OF PLYMOUTH. PEOPLE IN PLYMOUTH...AMERICUS AND EMPORIA SHOULD BE IN ASTORM SHELTER AT THIS TIME! BILLS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 9:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 118 min |
| Jul 2, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 66 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.