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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Goodland, KS

June 9, 1994Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1994, 9:34 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1994, 9:34 PM MDT (03:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1994, 10:30 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Greeley County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 401 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
401 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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What 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, Jun 9, 6:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
COZ090>092-100155-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
653 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
UNTIL 11 PM MDT...

THE SEVERE STORM FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME
EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

AT 650 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO SEVERE WEATHER
CURRENTLY IN KIT CARSON OR CHEYENNE COUNTY.  HOWEVER...A SEVERE STORM
WAS OVER NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY
DEVELOP SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THE FLAGLER AREA BY 8 PM MDT AND SPREAD
ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THESE COUNTIES THROUGH THE REST OF THE EVENING.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO
OCCUR.  BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR
AREA.

THE KEY TO SURVIVAL IS ADVANCED PLANNING.  YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE
THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUhSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR
ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

BARKER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 1:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace63 min
Jun 10, 2:22 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDWallace68 min
Jun 10, 2:29 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman61 min
Jun 10, 3:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley64 min
Jun 10, 3:48 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley57 min
Jun 10, 3:55 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
Jun 10, 4:24 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins66 min
Jun 10, 4:43 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman62 min
Jun 10, 5:26 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman64 min
Jun 10, 5:31 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins, Thomas59 min
Jun 9, 6:34 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDLincoln56 min
Jun 9, 7:15 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson60 min
Jun 9, 7:29 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDLincoln16 min
Jun 9, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln39 min
Jun 9, 8:10 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
Jun 9, 8:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson62 min
Jun 9, 8:16 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDLincoln29 min
Jun 9, 8:18 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson57 min
Jun 9, 8:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln29 min
Jun 9, 9:11 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
Jun 9, 9:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln55 min
Jun 10, 1:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson40 min
Jun 10, 1:47 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson43 min
Jun 10, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock18 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.