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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS

May 6, 1993Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1993, 10:11 AM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 1993, 10:11 AM CDT (15:11 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1993, 11:15 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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, May 6, 4:27 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 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

Special weather statement, May 6, 9:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 6, 10:05 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	60 min
May 5, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	47 min
May 5, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	44 min
May 5, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	42 min
May 5, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	68 min
May 5, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Finney, Scott	44 min
May 6, 7:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	68 min
May 6, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	63 min
May 6, 8:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	42 min
May 6, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	32 min
May 6, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rooks	60 min
May 6, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Ellis	27 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.