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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Goodland, KS

June 10, 1994Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1994, 1:20 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1994, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1994, 2:00 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2395 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 10, 7:50 AM MDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
COZ091-101450-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
750 AM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

AT 745 A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF STRATTON. A SHOWER
WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF STRATTON. MOVEMENT TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT
20 MILES AN HOUR WILL TAKE THE THUNDERSTORM TO THE NORTH OF STRATTON TO
NEAR BETHUNE BY 9 AM MDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS DISSIPATING QUICKLY SO
IT IS LIKELY THAT ONLY A FEW SPRINKLES WILL FALL IN THE BETHUNE AREA.
THE SHOWER SOUTH OF STRATTON OUGHT TO DISSIPATE BY 9 AM MDT.

JACKSON
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 10:57 AM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-110435-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1057 AM MDT (1157 AM CDT) FRI JUN 10 1994

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

CHEYENNE CO   CHEYENNE KS   DECATUR KS     DUNDY NE        GOVE KS
GRAHAM KS     GREELEY KS    HITCHCOCK NE   KIT CARSON CO   LOGAN KS
NORTON KS     PHILLIPS KS   RAWLINS KS     RED WILLOW NE   ROOKS KS
SHERIDAN KS   SHERMAN KS    THOMAS  KS     WALLACE KS      WICHITA KS
YUMA CO

SYNOPSIS: THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FIRE UP OVER EASTERN COLORADO
THIS EVENING...AND THEN MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND
NORTHWEST KANSAS DURING THE NIGHT. BASIC WEATHER PATTERNS ARE THE SAME
AS THEY HAVE BEEN ALL WEEK...AND ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS
LIKELY.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED...BUT NOT UNTIL AFTER 4 PM MDT
IN COLORADO AND 6 OR 7 PM MDT (7 OR 8 PM CDT) IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND
EXTREME SOUTHWESTv NEBRASKA.

KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:14 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-102015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
113 PM MDT (213 PM CDT) FRI JUN 10 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST
COLORADO...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 108 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM NEAR
BURLINGTON COLORADO TO NEAR IMPERIAL NEBRASKA.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR BURLINGTON AND BETWEEN BENKELMAN AND
IMPERIAL.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

RESIDENTS OF NORTHEASTERN COLORADO...SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA AND
NORTHWESTERN KANSAS SHOULD BE PREPARE FO*R ANOTHER ROUND OF RAPIDLY
DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BE ALERT
FOR ANY WARNING BULLETINS.

LUCAS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 9:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley56 min
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, 1:47 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson43 min
Jun 10, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock18 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.