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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1993, 8:32 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1993, 8:32 PM MDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1993, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kit Carson County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOS 070232 TORCOS COC063-070315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 832 PM MDT TUE JUL 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM MDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONGN THUNDERSTORM...WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO...15 MILES NORTH OF STRATTON ON THE KIT CARSON-YUMA COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM IS MOVING SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF DUE EAST... AND WILL MOVE TO A POSITION ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PERSONS WHO LIVE IN NORTHEAST KIT CARSON COUNTY SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER...AND SEEK SHELTER IF THIS THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. IF THE STORM SHOULD TAKE A SLIGHTLY MORE SOUTHERLY PATH...BURLINGTON COULD BE THREATENED. THIS STORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...VIVID LIGHTNING... AND POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL AS WELL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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, Jul 6, 5:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-070045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 540 PM MDT (640 PM CDT) TUE JUL 6 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM MDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... AT 535 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS NEAR IDALIA COLORADO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INCLUDING THE CITY OF ST FRANCIS BY 615 PM MDT. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG HAIL IS POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DUE BECOME SEVERE AND CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. BOYLE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-070045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR FIRST PARA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 540 PM MDT (640 PM CDT) TUE JUL 6 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM MDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... AT 535 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS NEAR IDALIA COLORADO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS INCLUDING THE CITY OF ST FRANCIS BY 615 PM MDT. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG HAIL IS POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DUE BECOME SEVERE AND CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. BOYLE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:49 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-070045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SECOND CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 540 PM MDT (640 PM CDT) TUE JUL 6 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM MDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... AT 535 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS NEAR IDALIA COLORADO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS INCLUDING THE CITY OF ST FRANCIS BY 615 PM MDT. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH HAIL IS POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DO BECOME SEVERE AND CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. BOYLE
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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.