Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

March 28, 1993Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1993, 6:01 PM CST for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 1993, 6:01 PM CST (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1993, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Norton County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Mar 28, 4:35 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

KSZ001-002-004-005-007-282340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
336 PM MST (436 PM CST) SUN MAR 28 1993

AT 425 PM CST THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE PRODUCE UP TO AROUND 1/2
SIZE HAIL IN NORTON KANSAS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP FROM NORTON TO
SOUTHWEST OF OBERLIN KANSAS ABOUT 35 MILES WEST OF NORTON.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE NORTH TO NORTHEAST.

OTHER RAINSHOWERS WERE 40 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND KANSAS TO 60
MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND NEAR ATWOOD.

RESIDENTS ALONG THE KANSAS NEBRASKA BORDER IN NORTHWEST
KANSAS CAN EXPECT RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH
SOME HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UNTIL NEAR 6 PM THIS EVENING.

BOYLE

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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:44 PM CST, 17 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
Mar 28, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.