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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS

June 26, 1993Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1993, 6:47 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1993, 6:47 PM MDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1993, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Wallace County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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 00:00Z on 1993-06-27Temperature 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1993-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 270049
TORGLD
KSC199-270145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
647 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...WALLACE COUNTY
 
AT 647 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 22 SOUTH OF
GOODLAND OR 6 MILES NORTH OF SHARON SPRINGS KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH
AT 10 MPH.
 
THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER THE CITY OF SHARON SPRINGS AROUND 710 PM MDT
AND ALL RESIDENTS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
WORKMAN
 
 
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THI*S TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 26, 12:52 PM MDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-261955-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1250 PM MDT (150 PM CDT) SAT JUN 26 1993

...VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ENTERING NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 1248 PM MDT (148 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ON THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BORDER
ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF ATWOOD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY: HEAVY
RAIN...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

JACKSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace61 min
Jun 26, 7:01 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins3 hr
Jun 26, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley60 min
Jun 26, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita59 min
Jun 26, 8:27 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley42 min
Jun 26, 9:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita32 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.