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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Goodland, KS

June 1, 1993Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1993, 9:58 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 1993, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1993, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -356 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 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, Jun 1, 4:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 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
Jun 1, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	63 min
Jun 1, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Phillips	65 min
Jun 1, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	59 min
Jun 2, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	62 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Elbert	31 min
Jun 2, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Elbert	54 min
Jun 2, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	El Paso	28 min
Jun 2, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lincoln	52 min
Jun 2, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	El Paso	68 min
Jun 2, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Elbert	66 min
Jun 2, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Lincoln	56 min
Jun 2, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	56 min
Jun 2, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	69 min
Jun 2, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	68 min
Jun 2, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	El Paso	56 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.