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Tornado Warning 71, NWS Goodland, KS

August 27, 1993Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 1993, 4:30 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1993, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1993, 5:12 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Wichita County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1322 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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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, Aug 27, 1:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-280600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1210 PM MDT (110 PM CDT) FRI AUG 27 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 SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS COMBINED
WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE FROM THE REMANANTS OF HURRICANE HILARY...
WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS
EVENING.  THOUGH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG THIS
EVENING TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT...NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

BARKER
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 3:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
KSZ004-005-007-272120-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
219 PM MDT (319 PM CDT) FRI AUG 27 1993

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS EATSERN PORTIONS OF
NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 218 PM MDT (318 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR QUINTER TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF
STOCKTON...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST TO 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF
WAKEENEY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL
MOVE OVER SOUTHERN GRAHAM AND ROOKS COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM CDT.
A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL.  MOTORISTS ALONG U.S. HIGHWAYS 24, 183 AND 283
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PERIODS OF REDUCED VISIBILITIES CAUSED BY THE
RAIN.

A LARGE AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHWEST
KANSAS...GENERALLY TO THE NORTHWEST OF A LEOTI / HOXIE /
PHILLIPSBURG LINE.  ROADWAYS WILL REMAIN WET ACROSS THE REGION
THROUGH THE EVENING. TRAVELERS ALONG INTERSTATE 70 AND OTHER
NORTHWEST KANSAS HIGHWAYS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR
HYDROPLANING AND BE PREPARED TO REDUCE THEIR SPEED IF NECESSARY.

BARKER
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 4:06 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
KSZ002-004-005-007-272210-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
305 PM MDT (405 PM CDT) FRI AUG 27 1993

...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS
NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 257 PM MDT (357 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF HILL CITY...OR 14 MILES NORTH
OF WAKEENEY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE
ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHERN GRAHAM COUNTY THROUGH 500 PM CDT.
BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH...AND POSSIBLY
SOME SMALL HAIL IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM.

ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST
WICHITA COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...8 MILES SOUTH OF SELKIRK...
OR 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF SYRACUSE.  THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS
WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL.  RESIDENTS OF
SOUTHWESTERN WICHITA COUNTY SHOULD BE REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AS IT CONTINUES NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

BARKER

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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.