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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1993, 5:18 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1993, 5:18 PM MDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1993, 5:45 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 12:00Z, 11.3 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOS 072318 TORCOS COC017-072345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 518 PM MDT TUE SEP 7 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 ...WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AT 516 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 3 TO 4 MILES WEST OF WILDHORSE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN WILDHORSE 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. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 4:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 30 min |
| Sep 7, 4:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 38 min |
| Sep 7, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 69 min |
| Sep 7, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 49 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.