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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Goodland, KS

June 8, 1994Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1994, 4:14 AM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1994, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1994, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hitchcock County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2382 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
2382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.4

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
Jun 7, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
Jun 7, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman55 min
Jun 7, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne66 min
Jun 7, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman64 min
Jun 7, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas65 min
Jun 7, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman41 min
Jun 7, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas63 min
Jun 7, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton55 min
Jun 7, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDPhillips67 min
Jun 7, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Norton48 min
Jun 7, 11:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham68 min
Jun 7, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham62 min
Jun 8, 12:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton39 min
Jun 8, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRooks63 min
Jun 8, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDPhillips67 min
Jun 8, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne57 min
Jun 8, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins66 min
Jun 8, 4:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur57 min
Jun 8, 4:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur48 min
Jun 7, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDYuma66 min
Jun 8, 2:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma55 min
Jun 8, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDYuma66 min
Jun 8, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDYuma55 min
Jun 8, 3:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock65 min
Jun 8, 3:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy45 min
Jun 8, 3:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.