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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Goodland, KS

July 23, 1993Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1993, 11:46 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1993, 11:46 PM MDT (05:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1993, 12:15 AM MDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1993-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 380 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1993-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -94 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
380 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.6

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 9:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne48 min
Jul 23, 10:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne56 min
Jul 23, 11:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins58 min
Jul 23, 11:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
Jul 23, 11:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins66 min
Jul 24, 12:21 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur69 min
Jul 24, 12:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman64 min
Jul 24, 12:43 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas62 min
Jul 24, 1:03 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton57 min
Jul 24, 1:08 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins67 min
Jul 24, 1:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur65 min
Jul 24, 2:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham60 min
Jul 23, 9:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert31 min
Jul 23, 9:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln36 min
Jul 23, 10:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln35 min
Jul 23, 10:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson31 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.