Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1993, 6:57 AM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1993, 6:57 AM MDT (12:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1993, 8:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, May 6, 1:07 AM MDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-060805- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 105 AM MDT (205 AM CDT) THU MAY 6 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KANSAS UNTIL 400 AM MDT (500 AM CDT)... AT 105 AM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LYDIA... 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PASS JUST SOUTHEAST OF MARIENTHAL DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND* THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...WEST OF A NORTON / WAKEENEY LINE. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. BARKER
Special weather statement, May 6, 2:00 AM MDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-060900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 200 AM MDT (300 AM CDT) THU MAY 6 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KANSAS UNTIL 400 AM MDT (500 AM CDT)... AT 155 AM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEOTI...17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLBY. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...GENERALLY WEST OF A OBERLIN/OAKLEY/SCOTT CITY LINE. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH... WHILE THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION MOVED EAST AT 25 MPH. BARKER
Special weather statement, May 6, 2:49 AM MDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-060900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 248 AM MDT (348 AM CDT) THU MAY 6 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OVER WESTERN KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 240AM MDT RADAR INDICATES LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLBY NEAR GEM...ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL SPRINGS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...GENERALLY WEST OF A OBERLIN/OAKLEY/SCOTT CITY LINE. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH TO NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH WHILE THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION MOVED EAST AT 25 MPH. JENNER
Special weather statement, May 6, 3:27 AM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-061000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 330 AM MDT (430 AM CDT) THU MAY 6 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS TONIGHT... LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS WEST OF A LINE FROM NORTON TO SCOTT CITY AND ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH TO NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DE- CREASED IN AREA AND INTENSITY. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HERE IN GOODLAND UNLESS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS RE-DEVELOP. JENNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 60 min |
| May 5, 6:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 47 min |
| May 5, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 min |
| May 5, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 42 min |
| May 5, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 68 min |
| May 5, 9:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Finney, Scott | 44 min |
| May 6, 6:22 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 68 min |
| May 6, 7:03 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 42 min |
| May 6, 9:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| May 6, 11:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 32 min |
| May 6, 12:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rooks | 60 min |
| May 6, 12:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Ellis | 27 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.