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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

May 3, 1994Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1994, 3:33 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 1994, 3:33 PM MDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1994, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Dundy County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 12:00Z on 1994-05-03Temperature 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 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 12:00Z on 1994-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 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
560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 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, May 3, 10:44 AM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 3, 2:25 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
COZ090-091-NEZ079-KSZ001-032125-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
224 PM MDT (324 PM CDT) TUE MAY 3 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS THE TRISTATE
REGION...

AT 220 PM MDT (320 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS EASTERN YUMA COUNTY
COLORADO...WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS...AND WESTERN DUNDY COUNTY
NEBRASKA.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF SAINT
FRANCIS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL APPROACH THE
SAINT FRANCIS AREA BY 410 PM CDT.

RESIDENTS OF CHEYENNE COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER
OF THE AFTERNOON.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SlKY.

BARKER
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:20 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
COZ090-091-NEZ079-080-KSZ001-002-013-014-032220-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
318 PM MDT (418 PM CDT) TUE MAY 3 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
AND EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 315 PM MDT (415 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST IMPERIAL
NEBRASKA TO 20 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON COLORADO.  THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF SAINT FRANCIS...AND 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BENKELMAN.  THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND
SHOULD MOVE INTO THE BIRD CITY AND BENKELMAN AREAS BY 340 PM MDT
(440 PM CDT)...AND INTO THE VICINITY OF MACDONALD BY 510 PM CDT.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND
POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

OTHER SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED WESTWARD ACROSS MUCH
OF KIT CARSON COUNTY.

.REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT
CLOUD.  PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS
NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.

BARKER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman68 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.