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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1994, 7:29 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 16 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1994, 7:29 PM MDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1994, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOS 100130 TORCOS COC073-100145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 729 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS EXTENDED THE TORNADO WARNING UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 730 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ...POSSIBLY PRODUCING A TORNADO...IN NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY...NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF ARRIBA. THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED A FUNNEL AND TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL 7 MILES NORTH OF GENOA. THIS STORM CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS OVER OR CLOSE TO THE COMMUNITY OF ARRIBA IN THE NEXT 5 MINUTE. PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY OF ARRIBA SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IFN AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. &
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, Jun 9, 6:53 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ090>092-100155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 653 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 11 PM MDT... THE SEVERE STORM FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. AT 650 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO SEVERE WEATHER CURRENTLY IN KIT CARSON OR CHEYENNE COUNTY. HOWEVER...A SEVERE STORM WAS OVER NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY DEVELOP SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THE FLAGLER AREA BY 8 PM MDT AND SPREAD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THESE COUNTIES THROUGH THE REST OF THE EVENING. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. THE KEY TO SURVIVAL IS ADVANCED PLANNING. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUhSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jun 9, 7:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 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 |
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.