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Tornado Warning 58, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1994, 7:56 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1994, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1994, 8:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 11, 5:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-112320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 419 PM MDT (519 PM CDT) SAT JUN 11 1994 ...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON... AT 415 PM MDT (515 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND VISUAL OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP ALONG THE NEBRASKA / KANSAS BORDER. THE ATMOSPHERE IS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AND SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY RAPIDLY BECOME STRONG... PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORM FORMATION THROUGH 530 PM MDT (630 PM CDT) WILL BE NORTHWEST OF A MCCOOK / GOODLAND / FLAGLER LINE. DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS...THE GROUND REMAINS SATURATED ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS. ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING zMAY PRODUCE SOME LOW-LAND FLOODING. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 5:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
NEZ079-KSZ001-112355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 451 PM MDT (551 PM CDT) SAT JUN 11 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH THE BENKELMAN AREA... AT 450 PM MDT (550 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BENKELMAN NEBRASKA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING LITTLE AND WAS LIKELY DROPPING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL ALONG WITH SOME SMALL HAIL. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST DUNDY COUNTY NEBRASKA AND NORTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY DETERIORATING WEATHER CONDITIONS. DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS...THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FALLING ON SATURATED GROUND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SOME MINOR 6FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 6:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
KSZ001-002-120050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 551 PM MDT (651 PM CDT) SAT JUN 11 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO DRIFT SLOWLY THROUGH NORTHEAST CHEYENNE AND NORTHWEST RAWLINS COUNTIES... AT 545 PM MDT (645 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME NORTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHWEST RAWLINS COUNTY...7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENKELMAN NEBRASKA. THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE VICINITY OF MACDONALD AND BEARDSLEY BY 745 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME SMALL HAIL WAS LIKELY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. WITH THE SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS CAUSED BY RAINS DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS...SOME FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS AND WASHES IS LIKELY OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM ISj NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 7:49 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
KSC153-120145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 648 PM MDT (748 PM CDT) SAT JUN 11 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN RAWLINS COUNTY... AT 745 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEARDSLEY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT RURAL PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN RAWLINS COUNTY THROUGH 830 PM CDT. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN EXTREME NORTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY AROUND 650 PM CDT. SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN RAWLINS COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 68 min |
| Jun 11, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 10:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert, Lincoln | 35 min |
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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.