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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 1994, 6:25 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado; Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1994, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1994, 7:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Sherman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 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 080027 TORGLD COC063-KSC181-080125- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 625 PM MDT SUN AUG 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY AT 620 PM MDT...GOODLAND RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER. A BRIEF TORNADO WAS OBSERVED FROM THIS STORM AT 616 PM MDT 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND. THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS ALONG THE KANSAS/COLORADO BORDER UNTIL 730 PM MDT. IF YOU ARE IN A CAR, GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. TURNER
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 7, 2:15 PM MDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:15 PM MDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 215 PM MDT (315 PM CDT) SUN AUG 7 1994 RECOMMENDATIONS: RECOMMEND 20 PERCENT CHC TSTMS ALL COUNTIES OF CWA. REST OF FCST ELEMENTS LOOK GOOD. DISCUSSION: LOOKS LIKE A BLEND OF THE ETA/NGM IS BEST CHOICE FOR PD 1. THIS IS BECAUSE ADAP DATA IS SHOWING GD LOW LVL MOISTURE CNVGNCE IAW WITH ETA NR THE FNT WHICH IS CURRENTLY INDCD TO BE S OF LBF AND BTN IDALIA AND HOLYOKE BY SFC AND SUPPLEMNTAL SFC OBS. THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH THE ETA IS THAT THE PROGD BNDRY LAYER MIXING RATIOS SEEM TO HI WITH CRNT OBS WITH VALUES MORE SIMILAR TO THE NGM. GVN THE MOVEMENT OF THE DRY LN...WHICH SFC DATA INDCS TO BE JUST W OF BURLINGTON CO...IN CONCERT WITH THE FNT TO THE N... NOW BELIEVE THE BEST CHC OF CNVTN IS IN THE NW HALF OF THE CWA THIS EVE. THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR IS A STG CAP OVR THIS PTN OF THE AREA. HWVR IF THIS CAP IS WEAKENED AND TSTMS START TO DVLP...SOME MAY BECOME SVR GVN CAPES OF 2500-3000 OVR AREA. ONLY OTR COMMENT IS THAT FWC GUIDANCE SEEMS TO LOW FOR MONDAYS HIGHS GVN THAT ANY COOL AIR THAT ARRIVES OVR NRN PTS OF THE CWA TNGT WL LKLY BE REPLACED BY WRM AIR ON S WNDS BY AFTN. THIS IS SUPPORTED BY A BUILDING 500 HH RDG DURG THIS PD. BELIEVE THE CAUSE FOR THE LWR GUIDANCE TEMPS MAY BE RELATED TO AN INCR OF PROGD SFC PRES BY THE NGM WHICH DOES NOT SEEM LKLY OVR THE ENTIRE CWA. GLD 61/95 2- HLC 65/94 2- CBK 63/94 2- MCK 63/92 2- TRB 62/96 2- 5C0 60/95 2- VJN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
KSZ027-041-072325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 420 PM MDT SUN AUG 7 1994 AT 416 PM MDT (516 PM CDT) DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER WALLACE COUNTY KANSAS SOUTHWEST OF SHARON SPRINGS OR NEAR WESKAN. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND STAY ALERT FOR ANY POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LUCAS
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
COZ090-092-KSZ001-027-041-072330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED...ADD YUMA CO AND CHEYENNE KS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 431 PM MDT (531 PM CDT) SUN AUG 7 1994 AT 416 PM MDT (516 PM CDT) DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER WALLACE COUNTY KANSAS SOUTHWEST OF SHARON SPRINGS OR NEAR WESKAN. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WAS ALSO NOTED OVER EXTREME WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY OF KANSAS NORTHWEST OF STAINT FRANCIS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND STAY ALERT FOR ANY POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LUCAS
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:03 PM MDT, 22 minutes before
COZ092-080035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 603 PM MDT SUN AUG 7 1994 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 600 PM MDT...GOODLAND RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER SEVERE. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AND WILL NOT BE RE-ISSUED. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Elbert, Lincoln | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 9:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 10:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 36 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.