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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Goodland, KS

June 7, 1994Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1994, 3:57 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1994, 3:57 PM MDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1994, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Yuma County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 10:35 AM MDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
COZ090-NEZ079>081-072115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
212 PM MDT (312 PM CDT) TUE JUN 7 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT) FOR NORTHEAST
YUMA COUNTY OF COLORADO AND DUNDY...HITCHCOCK...AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES
OF NEBRASKA...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ERUPT ACROSS THE AREA BY 5 PM MDT (6 PM
CDT). SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE
HAIL...OR EVEN TORNADOES.n RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR
LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY.

KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:02 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ090-NEZ079>081-072215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
302 PM MDT (402 PM CDT) TUE JUN 7 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ERUPT ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING.
SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE
HAIL...OR EVEN TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR
LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY.

KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:16 PM MDT, 41 minutes before
KSZ005-016-017-072215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED GENERIC CODING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
315 PM MDT (415 PM CDT) TUE JUN 7 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR GRAHAM...PHILLIPS...AND
ROOKS COUNTIES...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ERUPT ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. SOME
OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR EVEN
TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY.

KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:30 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
KSZ004-016-017-072215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED COUNTY LISTING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
330 PM MDT (430 PM CDT) TUE JUN 7 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR GRAHAM...NORTON...AND
ROOKS COUNTIES...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ERUPT ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. SOME
OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR EVEN
TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATEST WEATH(ER
INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY.

KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:53 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
COZ090-NEZ079>081-KSZ004-016-017-072255-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
351 PM MDT (451 PM CDT) TUE JUN 7 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT ( 10 PM CDT) FOR
NORTHEAST YUMA COUNTY OF COLORADO AND DUNDY...HITCHCOCK...AND RED
WILLOW COUNTIES OF NEBRASKA...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR
NORTON...GRAHAM...AND ROOKS COUNTIES OF KANSAS...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY LIKELY THIS EVENING...AND SOME
OF THEM ARE APT TO BE SEVERE. THE STORMS COULD DEVELOP EXTREMELY
RAPIDLY...SO IT WILL BE A GOOD IDEA TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT THE WEATHER
IS DOING.

AT 345 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN
AND WESTERN YUMA COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

KWIATKOWSKI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 6:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman58 min
Jun 6, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne57 min
Jun 6, 6:59 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley61 min
Jun 6, 7:59 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley61 min
Jun 6, 9:00 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley60 min
Jun 6, 9:05 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDWichita55 min
Jun 6, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson47 min
Jun 6, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma64 min
Jun 7, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma67 min
Jun 7, 5:22 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma68 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.