Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | El Paso | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 28 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.