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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1993, 4:13 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1993, 4:13 PM MDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1993, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 122213 TORCOS COC073-122245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 413 PM MDT MON JUL 12 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 ...NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 408 PM MDT...A SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF GENOA AND ARRIBA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE CITY OF ARRIBA AND WEST OF TOWN SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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 12, 2:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KSZ007-130240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 240 PM MDT (340 PM CDT) MON JUL 12 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO PHILLIPS AND ROOKS COUNTIES OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GIVEN THE SATURATED CONDITION OF THE GROUND IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE... AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PHILLIPS AND ROOKS COUNTIES FOR TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCES OF RAINFALL WILL OCCUR AFTER SUNSET. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING EXISTS WITHIN THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY. BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 2:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
KSZ007-130240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO WATCH TITLE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 257 PM MDT (357 PM CDT) MON JUL 12 1993 ...A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO PHILLIPS AND ROOKS COUNTIES OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GIVEN THE SATURATED CONDITION OF THE GROUND IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...FLOODING IS POSSIBLE... AND A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PHILLIPS AND ROOKS COUNTIES FOR TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCES OF RAINFALL WILL OCCUR AFTER SUNSET. REMEMBER...A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THE THREAT OF FLOODING EXISTS WITHIN THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY. BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATXHER INFORMATION. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 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.