Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1993, 4:21 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1993, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1993, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 2, 10:51 AM MDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-030450- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1049 AM MDT (1149 AM CDT) WED JUN 2 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: MOIST AIR WILL REMAIN OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS TODAY. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPSLOPE FLOW ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA. WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY SOME ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. JACKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Phillips | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rooks | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 5:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 1:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Elbert | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 2:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 68 min |
| Jun 2, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 3:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 3:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 4:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 68 min |
| Jun 2, 5:19 PM MDT | 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.