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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Goodland, KS

August 12, 1994Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1994, 9:09 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Aug 12, 1994, 9:09 PM MDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 1994, 10:10 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 12, 7:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 7:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 12, 5:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

COZ091-092-KSZ013-014-130005-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
459 PM MDT (559 PM CDT) FRI AUG 12 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM EAST CENTRAL COLORADO INTO
EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 455 PM MDT (555 PM CDT)...GOODLAND RADAR INDICATED WIDELY
SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE FROM 10 MILES
SOUTH OF COLBY KANSAS TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF BURLINGTON COLORADO.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 6 MILES SOUTH OF COLBY AND 11 MILES SOUTH OF
BURLINGTON.  MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOT YET DETERMINED.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

BARKER

Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:02 PM MDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

COZ090>092-KSZ013-014-027-028-130105-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
600 PM MDT (700 PM CDT) FRI AUG 12 1994

...WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF EAST
CENTRAL COLORADO AND NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 555 PM MDT (655 PM CDT)...GOODLAND RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF COLBY KANSAS TO 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON COLORADO.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 12
MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 15
MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WESKAN...WINONA...AND CHEYENNE WELLS BY 7 PM MDT.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

A STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WASHINGTON COUNTY COLORADO WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND MAY AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN YUMA COUNTY BY
7 PM MDT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

BARKER

Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:43 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 7:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	60 min
Aug 12, 6:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	34 min
Aug 12, 7:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	44 min
Aug 12, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lincoln	28 min
Aug 12, 8:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	60 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.