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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

May 7, 1993Rooks County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.
 
 
 
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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan68 min
May 7, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDPhillips47 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.