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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 1994, 5:04 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1994, 5:04 PM MDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1994, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 KCOS 042309 TORCOS COC041-042330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 504 PM MDT THU AUG 4 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY RADAR AT 505 PM INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWN OF PEYTON WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. 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 REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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 Aug 4, 2:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 227 PM MDT (327 PM CDT) THU AUG 4 1994 RECOMMENDATIONS: TOP...RCMD MENTION OF ISOLD TSTMS THIS EVE... OTRW NO CHGS NEEDED. DISCUSSION: NGM MODEL OF CHOICE THIS FCST PD AS IT HANDLED PSN OF FNT THE BEST AND HAS SHOWN MORE CONSISTENCY WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THIS FEATURE DURG THE PAST SVRL HRS. THE COLD FNT IS MOVING THRU NE ATTM AND CONTS TO TRIGGER ISOLD SHWRS WHILE SHWRS ARE DVLPG OVR THE COLO FNT RANGE. ALTHOUGH RFC GRIDDED DATA INDCS NO UPR LVL SUPPORT FOR TRW THIS AFTN AND EVE THE FACT THAT THERE IS SOME...ALBEIT WK...CNVTV ACTVTY OCRG ATTM SUGGESTS THAT A TRW OR TWO IS PSBL THIS EVE. A MENTION OF TRW OVR NW KS WOULD ALSO BRING AREA IN LN WITH FCSTS FM OMA AND DEN. ANY ACTVTY THAT DOES OCR SHOULD END QUICKLY WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. CRNT TEMP FCSTS FOR TNGT LOOK PRETTY GD SO WOULD NOT MAKE ANY BIG CHGS ATTM. DEN AND TOP MAY WANT TO LWR TEMPS TO MID 50S FOR TNGT. RDG TO MOVE INTO WRN CWA AND WNDS TO GO LGT OVNGT FOR A TM AND THEREFORE KS GROUP 1 AND COLO ZNS 90-92 SHOULD REACH THE MID 50S WITH GD RADIATIONAL COOLING XPCD OVR THE RGN. S WNDS TO THEN SPREAD OVR THE RGN ON FRI RTRNG WRM AND MOIST AIR. VORT MAX IS PROGD TO MOVE THRU THE AREA BGNG LT AFTN. NGM Q VECTORS SHO AREA OF LFT TO BE CENTERED OVR EXTRM NW KS BY 0Z THUS CHC OF TRW IS WARRANTED FOR THE RGN. REST OF SECOND PD FCSTS LOOKS OK AND NO CHGS SUGGESTED. GLD 56/85 1- HLC 59/84 1- CBK 57/85 1- MCK 55/83 1- TRB 57/86 -- 5C0 54/83 1- TURNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 4:49 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
KSZ001>005-013>017-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-050005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 448 PM MDT (548 PM CDT) THU AUG 4 1994 ...AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN RED WILLOW COUNTY... AT 545 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF MCCOOK. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH. OVER THE NEXT HOUR...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN RED WILLOW COUNTY WILL MOVE SOUTH PASSING NEAR DANBURY AS IT APPROACHES THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BORDER. HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY ENTER OR FORM OVER HITCHCOCK AND DUNDY COUNTIES OF NEBRASKA AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN MOST COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. VJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 50 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.