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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1993, 4:12 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1993, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1993, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kit Carson County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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
- 236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOS 082213 TORCOS COC063-082245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 412 PM MDT THU JUL 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM MDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR AT GOODLAND KANSAS INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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 8, 10:34 AM MDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1033 AM MDT (1133 AM CDT) THU JUL 8 1993 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS: CHEYENNE DECATUR GOVE GRAHAM GREELEY LOGAN NORTON PHILLIPS RAWLINS ROOKS SHERIDAN SHERMAN THOMAS WALLACE WICHITA SYNOPSIS: A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER COLORADO ALONG WITH A STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS KANSAS WILL COMBINE TO ALLOW FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WITH A WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS OVER THE AREA...SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. WORKMAN
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:23 PM MDT, 49 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-082325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 321 PM MDT (421 PM CDT) THU JUL 8 1993 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS EXCEPT PHILLIPS AND ROOKS COUNTIES. NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AS OF 315 PM MDT. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE FORMING OVER COLORADO ARE EXPECTED TO ENTER NORTHWEST KANSAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DRENCHING RAINS...LARGE HAIL...OR EVEN TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON WEATHER CONDITIONS TONIGHT AND LISTEN FOR LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. KWIATKOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 4:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 33 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.