Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 69 min |
| Jul 1, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 69 min |
| Jul 1, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 43 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.