Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1994, 6:56 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1994, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1994, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 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 7, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 215 PM MDT (315 PM CDT) SUN AUG 7 1994 RECOMMENDATIONS: RECOMMEND 20 PERCENT CHC TSTMS ALL COUNTIES OF CWA. REST OF FCST ELEMENTS LOOK GOOD. DISCUSSION: LOOKS LIKE A BLEND OF THE ETA/NGM IS BEST CHOICE FOR PD 1. THIS IS BECAUSE ADAP DATA IS SHOWING GD LOW LVL MOISTURE CNVGNCE IAW WITH ETA NR THE FNT WHICH IS CURRENTLY INDCD TO BE S OF LBF AND BTN IDALIA AND HOLYOKE BY SFC AND SUPPLEMNTAL SFC OBS. THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH THE ETA IS THAT THE PROGD BNDRY LAYER MIXING RATIOS SEEM TO HI WITH CRNT OBS WITH VALUES MORE SIMILAR TO THE NGM. GVN THE MOVEMENT OF THE DRY LN...WHICH SFC DATA INDCS TO BE JUST W OF BURLINGTON CO...IN CONCERT WITH THE FNT TO THE N... NOW BELIEVE THE BEST CHC OF CNVTN IS IN THE NW HALF OF THE CWA THIS EVE. THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR IS A STG CAP OVR THIS PTN OF THE AREA. HWVR IF THIS CAP IS WEAKENED AND TSTMS START TO DVLP...SOME MAY BECOME SVR GVN CAPES OF 2500-3000 OVR AREA. ONLY OTR COMMENT IS THAT FWC GUIDANCE SEEMS TO LOW FOR MONDAYS HIGHS GVN THAT ANY COOL AIR THAT ARRIVES OVR NRN PTS OF THE CWA TNGT WL LKLY BE REPLACED BY WRM AIR ON S WNDS BY AFTN. THIS IS SUPPORTED BY A BUILDING 500 HH RDG DURG THIS PD. BELIEVE THE CAUSE FOR THE LWR GUIDANCE TEMPS MAY BE RELATED TO AN INCR OF PROGD SFC PRES BY THE NGM WHICH DOES NOT SEEM LKLY OVR THE ENTIRE CWA. GLD 61/95 2- HLC 65/94 2- CBK 63/94 2- MCK 63/92 2- TRB 62/96 2- 5C0 60/95 2- VJN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
KSZ027-041-072325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 420 PM MDT SUN AUG 7 1994 AT 416 PM MDT (516 PM CDT) DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER WALLACE COUNTY KANSAS SOUTHWEST OF SHARON SPRINGS OR NEAR WESKAN. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND STAY ALERT FOR ANY POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LUCAS
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
COZ090-092-KSZ001-027-041-072330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED...ADD YUMA CO AND CHEYENNE KS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 431 PM MDT (531 PM CDT) SUN AUG 7 1994 AT 416 PM MDT (516 PM CDT) DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER WALLACE COUNTY KANSAS SOUTHWEST OF SHARON SPRINGS OR NEAR WESKAN. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WAS ALSO NOTED OVER EXTREME WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY OF KANSAS NORTHWEST OF STAINT FRANCIS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND STAY ALERT FOR ANY POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LUCAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 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.