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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1993, 9:33 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1993, 9:33 PM MDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1993, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 9, 6:43 PM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ001-100145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 642 PM MDT (742 PM CDT) FRI JUL 9 1993 AT 635 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM 19 WEST OF ST FRANCIS AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY IN THIS STORM. PERSONS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY AND THE TOWN OF ST FRANCIS SHOLD BE ALERT TO THIS STORM AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IS SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS IN THEIR AREA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO WILL BE MOVING NEAR OR INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS BETWEEN 645 PM AND 730 PM MDT. DORSEY &
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 7:17 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
KSZ001-100215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 717 PM MDT (817 PM CDT) FRI JUL 9 1993 AT 715 PM MDT...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS LOCATED IN CHEYENNE COUNTY WEST OF ST FRANCIS HAS DISSIPATED AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT TO PERSONS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY. OTHER STORMS CONTINUED OVER EASTERN COLORADO AND WERE MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AND MAY MOVE INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS LATER THIS EVENING. DORSEY &
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 8:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
KSZ001-100315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 809 PM MDT (909 PM CDT) FRI JUL 9 1993 AT 805 PM MDT..THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO SHERMAN COUNTY OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WERE IN THE VICINITY OF GOODLAND AT 8O5 PM MDT. THESE ARE NOT SEVERE STORMS..ALTHOUGH..GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS MAY ACCOMPANY THE STORMS ACROSS THE REGION. ELSEWHERE..VERY STRONG SvTORMS CONTINUED OVER EASTERN COLORADO AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AND MAY MOVE INTO WESTER KANSAS BY 9 PM MDT. DORSEY &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 6:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 7:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 8:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 9:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 9:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 10:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 26 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.