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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1994, 8:18 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1994, 8:18 PM MDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1994, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kit Carson County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 KGLD 100219 TORGLD COC063-100315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 818 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...SOUTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AT 815 PM MDT...KIT CARSON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF VONA. RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADO WAS LIKELY MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD COUNTINUE OVER RURAL PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY THROUGH 900 PM MDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT ULSE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. BARKER &
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, 1 hour 25 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, 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, 8:46 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.