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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1993, 9:19 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1993, 9:19 PM MDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1993, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 080319 TORGLD KSC181-080415- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 919 PM MDT WED JUL 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...SHERMAN COUNTY AT 920 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF RULETON OR 19 MILES WEST OF GOODLAND. THIS TORNADO IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF KANORADO BY 925 PM MDT AND RULETON BY 935 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 AVAIXLABLE. 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. JACKSON
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 7, 8:24 PM MDT, 55 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 67 min |
| Jul 7, 9:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 67 min |
| Jul 7, 9:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 70 min |
| Jul 7, 9:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 9:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 10:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 10:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 10:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sherman | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 69 min |
| Jul 7, 11:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 11:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 11:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 11:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Phillips | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 12:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 12:42 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 5:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 5:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 45 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.