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Tornado Warning 71, NWS Goodland, KS

August 7, 1994Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 1994, 7:08 PM MDT for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 1994, 7:08 PM MDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1994, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 104 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

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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 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:15 PM MDT, 4 hours 53 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 48 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, 2 hours 37 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, 1 hour 5 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 6:25 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson60 min
Aug 7, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne58 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.