Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1993, 4:44 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1993, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1993, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rooks County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KGLD 072140 RRA SVRGLD KSC163-072230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 344 PM MDT (444 PM CDT) FRI MAY 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM MDT (530 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...ROOKS COUNTY AT 440 PM CDT..RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS IN SOUTHEAST ROOKS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE QUITE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. &
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 7, 11:12 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-080600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1012 AM MDT (1105 AM CDT) FRI MAY 7 1993 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS: CHEYENNE DECATUR GOVE GRAHAM GREELEY LOGAN NORTON PHILLIPS RAWLINS ROOKS SHERIDAN SHERMAN THOMAS WALLACE WICHITA SYNOPSIS: A WARM HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND WILL COMBINE WITH A SLOW MOVING FRONTAL SYSTEM TO BRING A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO MUCH OF WESTERN KANSAS. SOME OF THE THUNDESTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE EAST OF A LINE FROM NORTON TO HILL CITY TO WAKEENEY. Z SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. GAHAGAN
Special weather statement, May 7, 4:09 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-072215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 313 PM MDT (413 PM CDT) FRI MAY 7 1993 ..TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR A SMALL PART OF GOODLAND WARNING AREA OF PHILLIPS AND ROOKS COUNTIES... AT 405 PM CDT..NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN THE WATCH AREA COVERED BY THE WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND...ALTHOUGH STORMS DEVELOPING SOUTH OF OUR WARNING AREA WILL LIKELY MOVE NORTHEAST INTO ROOK,S COUNTY BY 5 PM CDT. ELSEWHERE..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN COLORADO AND FAR WESTERN KANSAS AND DRIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST. DORSEY &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 68 min |
| May 7, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Phillips | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every 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.