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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Goodland, KS

July 8, 1993Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1993, 10:07 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1993, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1993, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1993-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2676 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1993-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2676 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 8, 4:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-082325-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
321 PM MDT (421 PM CDT) THU JUL 8 1993

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR ALL
OF NORTHWEST KANSAS EXCEPT PHILLIPS AND ROOKS COUNTIES.

NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AS OF 315 PM
MDT. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE FORMING OVER COLORADO ARE
EXPECTED TO ENTER NORTHWEST KANSAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING
WINDS...DRENCHING RAINS...LARGE HAIL...OR EVEN TORNADOES.

RESIDENTS OF THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON WEATHER
CONDITIONS TONIGHT AND LISTEN FOR LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-082340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
436 PM MDT (536 PM CDT) THU JUL 8 1993

...TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10
PM CDT( 9 PM MDT)...

AT 425 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 40 MILES WEST
NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON
COLORADO.  A TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS STORM.

THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

IF THE STORM WOULD CONTINUE ITS PATH THE STORM WILL CROSS
INTO WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY WEST OF GOODLAND BY AROUND 525
PM MDT.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.

HGJ/RB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur40 min
Jul 8, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton, Phillips61 min
Jul 8, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham61 min
Jul 8, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Sheridan57 min
Jul 8, 11:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGraham, Phillips, Rooks3 hr
Jul 8, 11:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDNorton3 hr
Jul 8, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Phillips61 min
Jul 9, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove69 min
Jul 9, 2:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGraham, Rooks6 hr

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.