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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

June 8, 1994Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1994, 5:50 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1994, 5:50 PM MDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1994, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Yuma County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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 1994-06-08Temperature 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 1994-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -49 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
1829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 082353 RRA
TORGLD
COC125-090045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
550 PM MDT WED JUN 8 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...YUMA COUNTY
 
AT 550 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO ON THE GROUND
2 MILES NORTHEAST OF YUMA OR 25 MILES EAST OF ACKRON MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 34 3 WEST OF
ECKLEY BY ;615 PM MDT.
 
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABBLE.
OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
JENNER
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 6:24 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma66 min
Jun 8, 1:35 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma55 min
Jun 8, 4:54 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma66 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.