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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS

July 8, 1993Kit Carson County, Colorado

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1993-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 236 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:36 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson39 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.