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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Goodland, KS

July 16, 1994Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1994, 8:33 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1994, 8:33 PM MDT (02:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1994, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 265 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 229 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-283 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 6:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita58 min
Jul 16, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita64 min
Jul 16, 8:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove56 min
Jul 16, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman63 min
Jul 16, 9:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove55 min
Jul 16, 9:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace46 min
Jul 16, 7:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma68 min
Jul 16, 8:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma56 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.