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Tornado Warning 71, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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, 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.