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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Goodland, KS

October 5, 1994El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 1994, 4:30 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 5, 1994, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 1994, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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 Oct 5, 2:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 2:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 5, 3:54 PM MDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 5, 3:58 PM MDT, 32 minutes before

COZ090>092-052300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
354 PM MDT WED OCT 5 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CHEYENNE...KIT CARSON AND YUMA
COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM MDT...

AT 350 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO SEVERE WEATHER OVER
OUR COUNTY WARNING AREA.  ALTHOUGH RADAR DOES INDICATE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF EASTERN COLORADO EXTENDING
20 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM COLORADO SPRINGS SOUTH TO THE NEW
MEXICO BORDER.  AT THIS TIME THEY ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO
35 MPH AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO OUR WARNING AREA BY 6 PM MDT.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS AR"E EASILY TOSSED
AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

JENNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	El Paso	26 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.