Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 1993, 10:16 PM CDT for Finney County, Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1993, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1993, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Finney County, KS, Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Scott City, KS | A tornado touched down briefly south of Scott City. A mobile home was pushed 200 yards off its foundation. Two sheriff's patrol cars were blown off the road. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 KDDC 060317 TORDDC KSC055-171-060400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1016 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SCOTT COUNTY AT 1016 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL PASS NEAR FRIEND AND TENNIS BY 1030 PM AND REACH THE SHALLOW WATER AREA JUST BEFORE 1100 PM CDT. IT WILL REACH SCOTT CITY AROUND 1100 PM CDT. TAKE COVER NOW!!!! IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE A TORANDO IN THE DARK SO DON'T TRY TO LOOK FOR IT!!! GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT... SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS bAND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
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, May 5, 5:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-052315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 414 PM MDT (514 PM CDT) WED MAY 5 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT)... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR THE WESTERN PORTION OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTON TO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAKEENEY. NO PRECIPITATION IS CURRENTLY BEING DETECTED WITHIN THE WATCH AREA...HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWESTERN KANSAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. BARKER
Special weather statement, May 5, 6:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 515 PM MDT (615 PM CDT) WED MAY 5 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT) FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM MDT. THE WATCH IS WEST OF A LINE FROM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTON TO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAKEENEY. AT 512 PM MDT NO STORMS WERE DETECTED BY RADAR IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST COLORADO ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXhPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS. GAHAGAN
Special weather statement, May 5, 6:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 559 PM MDT (659 PM CDT) WED MAY 5 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST UNTIL 11 PM MDT(MIDNIGHT CDT)... AT 655 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS. RADAR INDICATED STORMS ALONG THE KANSAS/COLORADO BORDER JUST WEST OF ST. FRANCIS 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND THROUGH SHARON SPRINGS TO JUST EAST OF TRIBUNE 60 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY...15 MILES SOUTH OF LEOTI MOVING NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STOvRM HAS PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN ULYSSES. THIS STORM WILL MOVOVER LEOTI BY 730 PM CDT. GAHAGAN &
Special weather statement, May 5, 9:48 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-060345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 847 PM MDT (947 PM CDT) WED MAY 5 1993 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT) FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RAWLINS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 845 MDT (945 CDT). THE STORM HAS MOVED INTO SOUTHERN NEBRASKA AND NO LONGER THREATENS RAWLINS COUNTY. AT 845 MDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY FROM JUST SOUTH OF OAKLEY TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS TIME NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED..HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE STILL FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHEUPDATES. GAHAGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 60 min |
| May 5, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 47 min |
| May 5, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 min |
| May 5, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 42 min |
| May 5, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 68 min |
| May 6, 7:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 68 min |
| May 6, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 63 min |
| May 6, 8:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 42 min |
| May 6, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| May 6, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 32 min |
| May 6, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rooks | 60 min |
| May 6, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Ellis | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.