Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 63, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1994, 1:35 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1994, 1:35 PM MDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1994, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wallace County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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
- 3368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 29, 10:02 AM MDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 10:02 AM MDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1002 AM MDT (1102 AM CDT) WED JUN 29 1994 RECOMMENDATIONS: NONE ATTM. FOR ALL AREAS...NO RCMDS. DISCUSSION: SATELLITE ANAL SHOWS PATCHY HIGH CLOUDS HAVE NEARLY MOVED EAST OUT OF AREA AS PER FORECAST. ALL ZONE FCST ELEMENTS FROM WSFO OFFICES LOOK GOOD. GLD 95/62 04 HLC 96/64 03 CBK 96/63 04 MCK 94/62 03 TRB 96/61 04 5C0 94/60 02 BULLER/VJN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:45 AM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-300445- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1044 AM MDT (1144 AM CDT) WED JUN 29 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: THE AIR MASS WILL BECOME MOIST AND UNSTABLE BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING IN FROM THE WEST IS EXPECTED TO ACT ON THIS AIR MASS...AND PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE REGION BEGINNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED IN THE COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. HOWEVER...THE ENTIRE REGION SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE tWEATHER. THEREFORE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. BULLER
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-291915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1212 PM MDT (112 PM CDT) WED JUN 29 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO... AT 1205 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EASTERN COLORADO. THE STORM WAS 12 NORTH OF STRATTON TO 12 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON. THIS STORM WAS SHOWING A SLOW SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT fAND SHOULD REMAIN OVER THE EASTERN PART OF KIT CARSON COUNTY UNTIL 105 PM MDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. BOYLE
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:40 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ091-092-KSZ013-027-028-041-042-291940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1238 PM MDT (138 PM CDT) WED JUN 29 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP... THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN KIT CARSON AND WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE OVER I-70 BETWEEN BETHUNE AND RULETON BY 110 PM MDT. IF YOU LIVE IN EASTERN KIT CARSON AND WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTIES...BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...INTENSE LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:15 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
COZ091-092-KSZ013>015-027>029-041-042-292115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 113 PM MDT (213 PM CDT) WED JUN 29 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND A SMALL PART OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 8 PM MDT (9 PM CDT)... ...THIS WATCH COVERS THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS: GREELEY...GOVE...LOGAN...SHERIDAN...SHERMAN...THOMAS...WALLACE...AND WICHITA. FOR COLORADO: EASTERN CHEYENNE AND SOUTHEASTERN KIT CARSON. THUNDERSTORMS THAT ERUPTED IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHEAST. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR EVEN TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. KWIATKOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rooks | 32 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.