Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1994, 6:23 PM MDT for Logan County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1994, 6:23 PM MDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1994, 6:49 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS1 KDEN 190024
SVRBOU
COC075-190100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
623 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
NORTHWESTERN LOGAN
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
WESTPLAINS
AT 622 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF
WEST PLAINS ...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF STERLING. THIS STORM WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH.
THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.
IMYWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, May 18, 4:27 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
COZ048-182300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
427 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SPECIAL
WEATHER STATEMENT EFFECTIVE FOR PEOPLE IN NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
ILIFF...NORTH STERLING RESERVOIR...PADRONI AND PEETZ
AT 424 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF PADRONI ...OR ABOUT 11
MILES NORTH OF STERLING. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING BRIEFLY HEAVY
RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES TO THE
NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AROUND 500 PM.
LAT...LON 4069 10302 4069 10331 4096 10333 4099 10294
IMYSpecial weather statement, May 18, 4:27 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
COZ048-182300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
427 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SPECIAL
WEATHER STATEMENT EFFECTIVE FOR PEOPLE IN NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
ILIFF...NORTH STERLING RESERVOIR...PADRONI AND PEETZ
AT 424 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF PADRONI ...OR ABOUT 11
MILES NORTH OF STERLING. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING BRIEFLY HEAVY
RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES TO THE
NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AROUND 500 PM.
LAT...LON 4069 10302 4069 10331 4096 10333 4099 10294
IMYSpecial weather statement, May 18, 4:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
COZ048-182330-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
456 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SPECIAL
WEATHER STATEMENT EFFECTIVE FOR PEOPLE IN WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY INCLUDING
THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
ATWOOD...LOGAN CORNERS...NORTH STERLING RESERVOIR...PAWNEE
PASS...STERLING AND WILLARD
AT 454 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF LOGAN CORNERS ...OR ABOUT 7
MILES WEST OF STERLING. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING PEA-TO MARBLE
SIZED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTH AT 35 MPH.
LAT...LON 4054 10321 4054 10350 4081 10345 4083 10320Special weather statement, May 18, 4:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
COZ048-182330-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
456 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SPECIAL
WEATHER STATEMENT EFFECTIVE FOR PEOPLE IN WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY INCLUDING
THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
ATWOOD...LOGAN CORNERS...NORTH STERLING RESERVOIR...PAWNEE
PASS...STERLING AND WILLARD
AT 454 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF LOGAN CORNERS ...OR ABOUT 7
MILES WEST OF STERLING. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING PEA-TO MARBLE
SIZED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTH AT 35 MPH.
LAT...LON 4054 10321 4054 10350 4081 10345 4083 10320Special weather statement, May 18, 5:55 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
COZ038>50-200100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 555 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...STRONG WINDS BLOWING ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO.... STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE OONCE AGAIN BLOWING ACROSS MOST OF NORTHEAST COLORADO. WIND SPEEDS FROM 20 TO 30 MPH ARE COMMON ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO WITH GUSTS OCCASIONALLY UP TO 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE EAST OF INTERSTATE 25. THESE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BLOW BRISKLY THROUGH THE NIGHT AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHES COLORADO FROM THE WEST. IMY
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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.