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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Goodland, KS

June 9, 1994Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1994, 6:34 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1994, 6:34 PM MDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1994, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCOS 100034
TORCOS
COC073-100130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
634 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM MDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
 
   ...NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 632 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN DENVER INDICATED
A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF LINCOLN COUNTY
...OR 22 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO
THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE
BETWEEN THE COUMMUNITIES OF GENOA AND SHAW INTO NOPRTHEAST LINCOLN
COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR.
 
THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL... AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH 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.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHE`LTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	60 min
Jun 9, 7:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Lincoln	16 min
Jun 9, 8:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lincoln	39 min
Jun 9, 8:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	65 min
Jun 9, 8:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	62 min
Jun 9, 8:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Lincoln	29 min
Jun 9, 8:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	57 min
Jun 9, 8:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lincoln	29 min
Jun 9, 9:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	64 min
Jun 9, 9:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lincoln	55 min
Jun 10, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	40 min
Jun 10, 1:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	43 min
Jun 10, 3:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	65 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.