Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1994, 8:11 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1994, 8:11 PM MDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1994, 9:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dundy County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 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, 7:44 PM MDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 7:44 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 744 PM MDT (844 PM CDT) SUN AUG 7 1994 DUE TO SVR WX IN CWA...WILL FOLLOW PREVIOUS FORECASTS FOR THE NEXT TWO PERIODS AS THEY LOOK OK. GLD 61/95 2- HLC 65/94 3- CBK 63/94 2- MCK 63/92 3- TRB 62/96 2- 5C0 60/95 2- TURNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 51 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, 4:31 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 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
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
COZ092-080035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 603 PM MDT SUN AUG 7 1994 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 600 PM MDT...GOODLAND RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER SEVERE. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AND WILL NOT BE RE-ISSUED. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 9:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 10:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 7:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Elbert, Lincoln | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 8:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 63 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.