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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1994, 5:28 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1994, 5:28 PM MDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1994, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1621 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 18, 9:23 AM MDT, 8 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 9:23 AM MDT, 8 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 923 AM MDT (1023 AM CDT) SAT JUN 18 1994 RECOMMENDATIONS... GVN XPCD RETREAT OF FNT TO THE N TDA...CO AND NEB ZNS MAY NEED TO BE WRMD A CTGY TDA. OTRW PACKAGES LOOK FINE. DISCUSSION... GVN ACTVTY ALL NGT...00Z NGM SEEMS TO HV BEST HANDLE ON DYNAMICS PLACING VORT MAX ACRS WRN KS AT 12Z. THIS CORRESPONDED VERY WELL WITH CNVTV ACTVTY AT THAT TM. AS HI OVR NRN PLNS RETREATS TO NE...FNT SHOULD FINALLY BE ABLE TO MOVE THRU CWA. FNT SEEMS TO HV ALREADY GOTTEN BY 5C0. WITH TEMPS ALREADY IN 70S OF FNT AND FOG LIFTING RPDLY NW OF FNT...FEEL FCST TEMPS IN CO AND NEB ZNS A LTL LOW FOR TDA. GLD 90/63 02 HLC 92/66 23 CBK 90/64 02 MCK 89/65 13 TRB 92/64 02 5C0 87/59 22 BARKER/TURNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 12:18 PM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ004-005-016-017-181915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1218 PM MDT (118 PM CDT) SAT JUN 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF THE REGION... AT 112 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTON AND PHILLIPS COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA 15 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF PHILLIPSBURG TO 8 MILES EAST OF NORTON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED DURING THE PAST HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. SOME LOWLAND FLOODING MAY BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE VERY HEAVY RAINS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THE TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO RISE INTO THE 90 TO 95 DEGREE RANGE FOR HIGHS WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER READINGS EXPECTED IN RAIN COOLED AREAS. SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE TO CONTINUE AT 10 TO 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 12:55 PM MDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
KSZ004-005-016-017-182005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1254 PM MDT (154 PM CDT) SAT JUN 18 1994 ...THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DISSIPATED OVER THE REGION... AT 151 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS HAD DISSIPATED OVER PHILLIPS AND NORTON COUNTIES DURING THE PAST HOUR. NO OTHER PRECIPITATION WAS DETECTED OVER THE REGION AT THIS TIME. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED THE CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR REDEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. THE TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO RISE INTO THE 90 TO 95 DEGREE RANGE FOR HIGHS WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER READINGS EXPECTED IN RAZIN COOLED AREAS. SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE TO CONTINUE AT 10 TO 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:42 PM MDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-182045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 141 PM MDT (241 PM CDT) SAT JUN 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 139 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTHWEST AND 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATH&ER SITUATION. TURNER
Local storm report, Jun 18, 4:21 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
421 PM MDT (521 PM CDT) SAT JUN 18 1994
FOR SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRING SATURDAY JUNE 11 1994
COUNTY LOCATION TIME-MDT REPOR0T
COLORADO
KIT CARSON 14 SOUTH 6 EAST OF 250 PM 1.00 HAIL
BURLINGTON
TURNERLocal storm report, Jun 18, 4:34 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
434 PM MDT (534 PM CDT) SAT JUN 18 1994
FOR SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRING SATURDAY JUNE 18 1994
COUNTY LOCATION l TIME-MDT REPORT
COLORADO
KIT CARSON 14 SOUTH 6 EAST OF 250 PM 1.00 HAIL
BURLINGTON
TURNER
...CORRECTION TO DATE...Local storm report, Jun 18, 4:34 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
434 PM MDT (534 PM CDT) SAT JUN 18 1994
FOR SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRING SATURDAY JUNE 18 1994
COUNTY LOCATION l TIME-MDT REPORT
COLORADO
KIT CARSON 14 SOUTH 6 EAST OF 250 PM 1.00 HAIL
BURLINGTON
TURNER
...CORRECTION TO DATE...The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 15 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.