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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS

June 18, 1993Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1993, 5:43 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1993, 5:43 PM MDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1993, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Greeley County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-06-18Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1306 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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 182343
TORGLD
KSC071-190045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
543 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...GREELEY COUNTY
 
AT 538 PM MDT..RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO FORMING IN WEST
CENTRAL GREELEY COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STORM WILL MOVE TO
THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD PASS SOUTH OF HORACE BY 615 PM MDT.
 
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERI8OR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
 
 
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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.