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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

June 21, 1992El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1992, 2:27 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1992, 2:27 PM MDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1992, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 635 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOS 212027
TORCOS
COC041-212100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
227 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING          EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM MDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
 
   ...WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY
 
AT 220 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN..MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH
 
 
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, Jun 21, 11:15 AM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-211830-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
1115 AM MDT SUN JUN 21 1992

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS:

CHEYENNE    RAWLINS     SCOTT         LANE         NESS       RUSH
SHERMAN     THOMAS      DECATUR       NORTON       PHILLIPS
WALLACE     LOGAN       SHERIDAN      GRAHAM       ROOKS
GREELEY     WICHITA     GOVE          TREGO        ELLIS

SYNOPSIS: A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE REGION AND A
FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST FROM THE ROCKIES THIS EVENING..ALL COMBINED
WILL POSSIBLY CAUSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

SEVERE WEATHER IS A POSSIBILITY AND SPOTTER ACTjIVATION IS ANTICIPATED.

DORSEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 8:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	55 min
Jun 21, 4:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Elbert, Lincoln	39 min
Jun 21, 5:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Elbert	46 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.