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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS

June 2, 1993Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1993, 5:28 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1993, 5:28 PM MDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1993, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Wallace County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 1993-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 66 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 1993-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 022329
TORGLD
KSC199-030030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
528 PM MDT WED JUN 2 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...WALLACE COUNTY
 
A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 40 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR WESKAN AROUND 545 PM MDT.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins63 min
Jun 1, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDPhillips65 min
Jun 1, 8:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham59 min
Jun 1, 8:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRooks62 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.