Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1994, 7:04 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1994, 7:04 PM MDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1994, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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
- 1204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2277 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 8, 5:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-090005-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
506 PM MDT (606 PM CDT) WED JUN 8 1994
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY UNTIL
6 PM MDT...
...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST COLORADO...
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT
CDT)...
AT 5 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO 18 MILES NORTH OF YUMA COLORADO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES
NORTH OF YUMA TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF YUMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE
THROUGH NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM MDT.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES...ARE
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST COLORADO...
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS INTO LATE EVENING. FOR THIS
REASON A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...
YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...
DUNDY...HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW
IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...SHERMAN AND THOMAS
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO
OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE T*O SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR
AREA.Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:49 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-090150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 649 PM MDT (749 PM CDT) WED JUN 8 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 645 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO SEVERE WEATHER IN THE WATCH AREA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW DEVELOPING OVER PARTS EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA FROM HAGLER NEBRASKA TO MCCOOK NEBRASKA AND THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. AT THIS TIME VERY HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND FAIRLY STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 8 PM MDT (9 PM CDT). JENNER IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 8:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 9:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 9:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 10:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 10:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 10:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 10:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Norton | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 10:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 10:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 10:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 10:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 10:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 11:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 11:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 11:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 67 min |
| Jun 9, 1:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 6:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 7:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 8:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 8:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 8:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 8:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 9:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 10:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 10:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 60 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.