Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 57, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1994, 7:22 PM CDT for Logan County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1994, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1994, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 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 110023 TORGLD KSC109-199-110130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 622 PM MDT (722 PM CDT) FRI JUN 10 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT (830 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN WALLACE COUNTY AT 620 PM MDT (720 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL PUT THE STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE POSSIBLE TORNADO ACROSS US HIGHWAY 40 SIX MILES EAST OF WALLACE AT 700 PM MDT. 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. BULLER
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, 2:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 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, 3:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 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, 3:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 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
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 326 PM MDT (426 PM CDT) FRI JUN 10 1994 KSZ001>003-013>015-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-102250- CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE- GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING GOODLAND...COLBY...GOVE...TRIBUNE...BENKELMAN AND MCCOOK ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT (9 PM CDT)... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EVENING. THESE STORMS THREATEN TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR EVEN TORNADOES. PEOPLE SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CAREFULLY TO AVOID GETTING IN A DANGEROUS SITUATION. OTHERWISE...THIS EVENING SHOULD HAVE TEMPERATURES FROM THE MID 60S TO THE LOWER 70S AND SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 5 TO 15 MPH. KSZ004-005-016-017-102250- NORTON-PHILLIPS-GRAHAM-ROOKS- INCLUDING PHILLIPSBURG AND HILL CITY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS OR HAIL. OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE TEMPERATURES FROM THE UPPER 60S TO THE MID 70S AND SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 5 TO 15 MPH. COZ091-092-102250- KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO- INCLUDING BURLINGTON ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EVENING...MAINLY WITHIN 30 MILES OF THE KANSAS BORDER. THESE STORMS THREATEN TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR EVEN TORNADOES. PEOPLE SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CAREFULLY TO AVOID GETTING IN A DANGEROUS SITUATION. OTHERWISE...THIS EVENING SHOULD HAVE TEMPERATURES FROM THE MID 60S TO THE LOWER 70S AND SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 5 TO 15 MPH. COZ090-102250- YUMA- INCLUDING YUMA ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT FOR SOUTHEAST YUMA COUNTY... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EVENING...MAINLY WITHIN 30 MILES OF THE KANSAS BORDER. THESE STORMS THREATEN TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR EVEN TORNADOES. PEOPLE SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CAREFULLY TO AVOID GETTING IN A DANGEROUS SITUATION. OTHERWISE...THIS EVENING SHOULD HAVE TEMPERATURES DROPPING TO NEAR 60 BY 10 PM MDT...AND SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 5 TO 15 MPH. KWIATKOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 28 min |
| Jun 11, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 57 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.