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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Goodland, KS

July 7, 1993Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1993, 8:36 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1993, 8:36 PM MDT (02:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1993, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
39 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, 2.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1993-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 334 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1993-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 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
334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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.

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:04 PM MDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 8:24 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-080325-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
823 PM MDT (923 PM CDT) WED JUL 7 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST
KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 AM CDT) THURSDAY MORNING...

AT 815 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS.  RADAR DOES INDICATE VERY
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN COLORADO FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST
OF GOODLAND TO 90 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND THEY WILL BE MOVING
INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS INTO WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY BY 830 PM CDT.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMPATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.

JENNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman67 min
Jul 7, 9:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace67 min
Jul 7, 9:19 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman56 min
Jul 7, 9:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne70 min
Jul 7, 9:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley64 min
Jul 7, 9:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Thomas57 min
Jul 7, 10:14 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDWallace61 min
Jul 7, 10:17 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins58 min
Jul 7, 10:24 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGove3 hr
Jul 7, 10:24 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDSherman3 hr
Jul 7, 10:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Sheridan3 hr
Jul 7, 10:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Thomas69 min
Jul 7, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur60 min
Jul 7, 11:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Norton62 min
Jul 7, 11:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman56 min
Jul 7, 11:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDPhillips59 min
Jul 8, 12:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman31 min
Jul 8, 12:42 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne41 min
Jul 8, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove60 min
Jul 8, 5:04 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman56 min
Jul 8, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne57 min
Jul 8, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas55 min
Jul 8, 5:56 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman45 min
Jul 8, 4:12 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson33 min
Jul 8, 4:42 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson33 min

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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.