Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 1994, 5:34 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 1994, 5:34 PM MDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1994, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 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, 11.6 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
- 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
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 5, 2:29 PM MDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 2:29 PM MDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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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
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 4:56 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
COZ090>092-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 456 PM MDT WED OCT 5 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM... AT 450 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO PRECIPITATION OVER CHEYENNE...KIT CARSON...OR YUMA COUNTIES OF EASTERN COLORADO. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE FRONT RANGE EASTWARD TO NEAR LIMON. THIS AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES EARLY THIS EVENING. THOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE YET BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS... CONDITIONS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES THIS EVENING. DIME SIZE OR LARGER HAIL...WIND GUSTS ABOVE 55 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. DURING A TORNADO WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR IF A TORNADO IS SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 4:57 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
COZ090>092-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 456 PM MDT WED OCT 5 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM... AT 450 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO PRECIPITATION OVER CHEYENNE...KIT CARSON...OR YUMA COUNTIES OF EASTERN COLORADO. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE FRONT RANGE EASTWARD TO NEAR LIMON. THIS AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES EARLY THIS EVENING. THOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE YET BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS... CONDITIONS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES THIS EVENING. DIME SIZE OR LARGER HAIL...WIND GUSTS ABOVE 55 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. DURING A TORNADO WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR IF A TORNADO IS SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 30 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.