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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1994, 2:22 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1994, 2:22 PM MDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1994, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wallace County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 102023 TORGLD KSC199-102130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 222 PM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WALLACE COUNTY AT 218 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF SHARON SPRINGS KANSAS...29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH WESKAN BY 245 PM MDT. THE KIT CARSON COUNTY COLORADO SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BURLINGTON MOVING SOUTHEAST. 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. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER 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. GAHAGAN &
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, 10:57 AM MDT, 3 hours 25 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, 1 hour 8 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
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:09 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
NEZ079>081-COZ090>092-KSZ001>003-013>015-027>029-041-042-102110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 208 PM MDT (308 PM CDT) FRI JUN 10 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...AND MOST OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 8 PM MDT (9 PM CDT)... ...THE WATCH IS ONLY IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST PART OF YUMA COUNTY COLORADO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE `WATCH AREA INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD MONITOR LATEST RADIO AND TV BROADCASTS TO KEEP TRACK OF THE WEATHER. KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:18 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
NEZ079>081-COZ090>092-KSZ001>003-013>015-027>029-041-042-102110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 218 PM MDT (318 PM CDT) FRI JUN 10 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND MOST OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 8 PM MDT (9 PM CDT)... ...THE WATCH IS ONLY IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST PART OF YUMA COUNTY COLORADO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE WATCH AREA INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD MONITOR LATEST RADIO AND TV BROADCASTS TO KEEP TRACK OF THE WEATHER. KWIATKOWSKI/CORRECTED FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA IN HEADER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 1:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 2:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 3:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 3:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 3:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 4:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 66 min |
| Jun 10, 4:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 5:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 5:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 59 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.