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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 284, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1994, 8:10 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 1994, 8:10 PM MDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1994, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 Oct 1, 7:56 PM MDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 7:56 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 1, 6:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
COZ090>092-020145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR TYPO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 641 PM MDT SAT OCT 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF KIT CARSON COUNTY IN COLORADO... AT 635 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SOME SMALL HAIL WAS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF KIT CARSON COUNTY ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES NORTH OF FLAGLER COLORADO OR 70 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY UNTIL 710 PM MDT. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. BOYLE
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 6:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
COZ090>092-020145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 641 PM MDT SAT OCT 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF KIT CARSON COUNTY IN COLORADO... AT 635 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SOME SMALL HAIL WAS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF KIT CARSON COUNTY ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES NORTH OF FLAGLER COLORADO OR 70 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTY OF NORTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY UNTIL 710 PM MDT. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. BOYLE
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 6:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
COZ090>092-020145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR TYPO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 641 PM MDT SAT OCT 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF KIT CARSON COUNTY IN COLORADO... AT 635 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SOME SMALL HAIL WAS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF KIT CARSON COUNTY ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES NORTH OF FLAGLER COLORADO OR 70 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY UNTIL 710 PM MDT. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. BOYLE
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 8:00 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 57 min |
| Oct 1, 6:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | El Paso | 32 min |
| Oct 1, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 49 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.