Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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, May 3, 10:44 AM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 68 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.