Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1994, 5:17 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1994, 5:17 PM MDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1994, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOS 282318 SVRCOS COC073-282345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 517 PM MDT SAT MAY 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 515 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED FROM 11 MILES NE OF KARVAL...NEAR COLORADO HWY 94...TO 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KARVAL ON THE LINCOLN/KIOWA COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE EAST OUT OF LINCOLN COUNTY INTO CHEYENNE AND KIOWA COUNTY IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF Y OUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 1:05 PM MDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001-013-027-041-282005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 105 PM MDT (205 PM CDT) SAT MAY 28 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER KIT CARSON COUNTY COLORADO... AT 100 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY 9 MILES EAST OF FLAGLER. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS OVER SIEBERT BY 115 PM MDT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS PRODUCING HAIL IN EXCESS OF 3/4" AND WINDS OF 60 MPH OR GREATER. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPINGf WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER
Special weather statement, May 28, 1:48 PM MDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-282050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 147 PM MDT (247 PM CDT) SAT MAY 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 144 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF KIT CARSON TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRATTON TO 10 MILES WEST OF JOES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRATTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY EXCEED SEVERE LEVELS LATER THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY ALONG AND EAST OF WRAY TO TRIBUNE LINE. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FO"R THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER
Special weather statement, May 28, 2:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-282150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 246 PM MDT (346 PM CDT) SAT MAY 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT) FOR A LARGE PORTION OF THE REGION... AT 243 PM MDT (343 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WRAY TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURLINGTON TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHEYENNE WELLS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 23 MILES NORTHWEST AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE...ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT) ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF BENKELMAN NEBRASKA TO 25 MILES EAST OF LIMON TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELE<VISION FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| May 28, 4:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 26 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.