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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Goodland, KS

May 28, 1993Elbert County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1993, 3:15 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1993, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1993, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Elbert County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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 1993-05-28Temperature 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 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 1993-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 9:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur65 min
May 27, 8:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson37 min
May 28, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert50 min
May 28, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso44 min
May 28, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert, Lincoln56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 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.