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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 3, 1994, 7:35 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1994, 7:35 PM MDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1994, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greeley County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 040136 TORGLD KSC071-040230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 735 PM MDT TUE MAY 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...GREELEY COUNTY AT 730 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF HORACE WHICH IS ABOUT 43 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL PASS 8 MILES NORTH OF HORACE AROUND 8 PM. A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN WALLACE COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDE>R A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 2:25 PM MDT, 5 hours 10 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, 4 hours 15 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
Special weather statement, May 3, 4:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-032325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 422 PM MDT (522 PM CDT) TUE MAY 3 1994 ...A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED MOVING ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 420 PM MDT (520 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES EAST OF HAYS CENTER TO 15 MILES EAST OF BENKELMAN TO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS EAST AT 25 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF BENKELMAN AND 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND. THIS LINE SHOULD MOVE INTO ATWOOD AND TRENTON BY 600 PM CDT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. BARKER
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:00 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-040000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 459 PM MDT (559 PM CDT) TUE MAY 3 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS SHERMAN COUNTY... AT 455 PM MDT (555 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME SMALL HAIL. PEA SIZE HAIL FELL AT THE GOODLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT 450 PM MDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF EDSON BY 520 PM MDT. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH STRETCHED FROM NORTH PLATTE TO TRENTON TO GOODLAND TO KANORADO. ELSEWHERE...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON. MOVEMENT OF THIS ACTIVITY WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 56 min |
| May 3, 6:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| May 3, 6:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 55 min |
| May 3, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 61 min |
| May 3, 8:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 27 min |
| May 3, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 33 min |
| May 3, 8:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 63 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.