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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Goodland, KS

July 1, 1993Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1993, 10:40 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1993, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1993, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1993-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3600 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1993-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, 4:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
KSZ001-012255-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
354 PM MDT (454 PM CDT) THU JUL 1 1993

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SHERMAN...CHEYENNE...AND
RAWLINS COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT)...

AT 352 PM MDT (452 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO
PRECIPITATION OVER THE KANSAS PORTION OF THE WATCH AREA.  THE
POTENTIAL REMAINS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND
TORNADOES IN EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS.

THE KEY TO SURVIVAL IS ADVANCED PLANNING.  YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE
THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR
ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

BARKER
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
KSZ001-020000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
454 PM MDT (554 PM CDT) THU JUL 1 1993

...TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM MDT..

AT 450 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME
NORTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY..45 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND AND WAS
MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM AND PERSONS IN
NORTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY AND NORTHWEST RAWLINS COUNTY SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND WILL LIKELY MOVE
INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM MDT.

DORSEY

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur69 min
Jul 1, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins62 min
Jul 1, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas60 min
Jul 1, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman65 min
Jul 1, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan64 min
Jul 1, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas69 min
Jul 1, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman30 min
Jul 1, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham55 min
Jul 2, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham43 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.