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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Goodland, KS

May 29, 1993Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1993, 6:16 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1993, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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

Special weather statement, May 29, 2:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 4:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 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
May 29, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	36 min
May 29, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	52 min
May 29, 6:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	3 hr
May 28, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Elbert	42 min
May 28, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Lincoln	60 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.