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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1994, 1:47 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1994, 1:47 PM MDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1994, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 2395 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 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 101947 TORGLD COC017-063-102030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 147 PM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTHEASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY ...SOUTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AT 143 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF BURLINGTON COLORADO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. BY 220 PM MDT...THE POSSIBLE TORNADO SHOULD CLIP THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. 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.
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 10, 7:50 AM MDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
COZ091-101450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 750 AM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 745 A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF STRATTON. A SHOWER WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF STRATTON. MOVEMENT TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR WILL TAKE THE THUNDERSTORM TO THE NORTH OF STRATTON TO NEAR BETHUNE BY 9 AM MDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS DISSIPATING QUICKLY SO IT IS LIKELY THAT ONLY A FEW SPRINKLES WILL FALL IN THE BETHUNE AREA. THE SHOWER SOUTH OF STRATTON OUGHT TO DISSIPATE BY 9 AM MDT. JACKSON
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 10:57 AM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-110435- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1057 AM MDT (1157 AM CDT) FRI JUN 10 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS PHILLIPS KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE ROOKS KS SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO SYNOPSIS: THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FIRE UP OVER EASTERN COLORADO THIS EVENING...AND THEN MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS DURING THE NIGHT. BASIC WEATHER PATTERNS ARE THE SAME AS THEY HAVE BEEN ALL WEEK...AND ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS LIKELY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED...BUT NOT UNTIL AFTER 4 PM MDT IN COLORADO AND 6 OR 7 PM MDT (7 OR 8 PM CDT) IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTv NEBRASKA. KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:14 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-102015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 113 PM MDT (213 PM CDT) FRI JUN 10 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST COLORADO...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 108 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM NEAR BURLINGTON COLORADO TO NEAR IMPERIAL NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR BURLINGTON AND BETWEEN BENKELMAN AND IMPERIAL. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF NORTHEASTERN COLORADO...SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS SHOULD BE PREPARE FO*R ANOTHER ROUND OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BE ALERT FOR ANY WARNING BULLETINS. LUCAS
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, 8:18 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, 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.