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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Goodland, KS

September 7, 1993Elbert County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1993, 4:15 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 1993, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 1993, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Elbert County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 12:00Z on 1993-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 104 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 12:00Z on 1993-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Sep 7, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln32 min
Sep 7, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson38 min
Sep 7, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne69 min
Sep 7, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln65 min
Sep 7, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert49 min
Sep 7, 5:18 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne27 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.