Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 67, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 1993, 5:11 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1993, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1993, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elbert County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 062312 TORCOS COC039-062345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 511 PM MDT FRI AUG 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...EASTERN ELBERT COUNTY AT 507 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN DENVER REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 4 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MATHESON MOVING TOWARD THE COMMUNITY OF MATHESON AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN MATHESON SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS STORM IS ALSO MOVING TOWARD THE CITY OF LIMON...BUT IS STILL ABOUT 20 MILES TO THE WEST SOUTHWEST OF LIMON. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED AT 452 PM. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 38 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.