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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Goodland, KS

August 4, 1994Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1994, 8:26 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1994, 8:26 PM MDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1994, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 00:00Z on 1994-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 546 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 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
546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2310 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 4, 7:58 PM MDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 7:58 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 4:49 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-050005-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
448 PM MDT (548 PM CDT) THU AUG 4 1994

...AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN RED
WILLOW COUNTY...

AT 545 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
ABOUT 5 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF MCCOOK.  MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE SOUTH
AT 20 MPH.

OVER THE NEXT HOUR...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN RED WILLOW COUNTY WILL
MOVE SOUTH PASSING NEAR DANBURY AS IT APPROACHES THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA
BORDER.  HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY ENTER OR FORM OVER HITCHCOCK
AND DUNDY COUNTIES OF NEBRASKA AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN MOST COUNTIES OF
NORTHWEST KANSAS.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

VJN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 6:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert56 min
Aug 4, 6:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso56 min
Aug 4, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso33 min
Aug 4, 7:30 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDEl Paso30 min
Aug 4, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln28 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.