Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton, Phillips | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 11:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Phillips, Rooks | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Norton | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Phillips | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 69 min |
| Jul 9, 2:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Rooks | 6 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.