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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Goodland, KS

May 6, 1993Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1993, 7:03 AM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 1993, 7:03 AM MDT (13:03 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1993, 7:45 AM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Wallace County, KS

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 56 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, 5 hours 3 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 14 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 36 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace60 min
May 5, 6:28 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDWichita47 min
May 5, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne44 min
May 5, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman42 min
May 5, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins68 min
May 5, 9:16 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDFinney, Scott44 min
May 6, 6:22 AM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley68 min
May 6, 6:57 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman63 min
May 6, 9:11 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan64 min
May 6, 11:13 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove32 min
May 6, 12:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRooks60 min
May 6, 12:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEllis27 min

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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.