Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 55, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 1993, 6:22 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1993, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1069 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 242323 TORCNK KSC123-250030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 622 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 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 ...MITCHELL COUNTY AT 620 PM SPOTTERS REPORT A DEVELOPING TORNADO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF TIPTON MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE TO NEAR TIPTON BY 630 PM AND BE NEAR BELOIT BY 7 PM....TAKE COVER IMMEDATELY..... 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 IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. WHITMORE
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 24, 5:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-242315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 514 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 510 PM RADAR INDICATED NEWLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ALONG THE WESTERN BORDERS OF OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES FROM NEAR NATOMA NORTHWARD TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF KIRWIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT 510 PM WERE ONLY PRODUCING LIGHT RAIN AND SOME LIGHTNING...BUT SHOULD STRENGTHEN FURTHER THROUGH 6 PM AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS WESTERN OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORMS HAS PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 5:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-242315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 514 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 510 PM RADAR INDICATED NEWLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ALONG THE WESTERN BORDERS OF OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES FROM NEAR NATOMA NORTHWARD TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF KIRWIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT 510 PM WERE ONLY PRODUCING LIGHT RAIN AND SOME LIGHTNING...BUT SHOULD STRENGTHEN FURTHER THROUGH 6 PM AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS WESTERN OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORMS HAS PASSED AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 6:09 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-250015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 609 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS POSTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 605 PM CDT NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE ATMOSPHERE HOWEVER REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH IS POSTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR MAINLY THAT PORTION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF LINE FROM THE NEBRASKA BORDER 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE...TO MANHATTAN...TO JUNCTION CITY. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPING DURIPNG THE EVENING AND HAVE A PLAN FOR SEEKING SHELTER SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES. FRANTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 68 min |
| Jul 23, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 10:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 30 min |
| Jul 24, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Smith | 58 min |
| Jul 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne, Smith | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 28 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.