Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 5:48 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1994, 5:48 PM MDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1994, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
COZ090>092-062305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 405 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 355 PM MDT (455 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CHEYENNE COUNTY OF COLORADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILD HORSE...AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL PUT THE STORM INTO AROYA BY 430 PM MDT. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNER IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BULLER
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:48 PM MDT, 1 hour before
COC017-063-070015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 448 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN COLORADO... AT 445 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS TO 30 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS. MOVEENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. J THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SIEBERT AND VONA BY 500 PM MDT...AND INTO FIRST VIEW BY 530 PM. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.