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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

June 6, 1994Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1994, 7:59 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1994, 7:59 PM MDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1994, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Greeley County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3341 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
3341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1406 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 070200
TORGLD
KSC071-070300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
759 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN GREELEY COUNTY
 
AT 754 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRIBUNE OR 25 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF SYRACUSE.
 
THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
PASS ACROSS HIGHWAY 27 8 MILES SOUTH OF TRIBUNE BY 830 PM MDT.
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  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
STURDIER 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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:06 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
COZ090>092-062305-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
405 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

AT 355 PM MDT (455 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CHEYENNE COUNTY OF
COLORADO.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILD
HORSE...AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS MOVEMENT WILL PUT THE STORM INTO AROYA BY 430 PM MDT.  SMALL HAIL
AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNER IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

BULLER
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:48 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
COC017-063-070015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
448 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN COLORADO...

AT 445 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS TO 30 MILES WEST OF
BURLINGTON.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CHEYENNE WELLS.

MOVEENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
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THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SIEBERT AND VONA BY 500 PM MDT...AND
INTO FIRST VIEW BY 530 PM.

TURNER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 6:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman58 min
Jun 6, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne57 min
Jun 6, 6:59 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley61 min
Jun 6, 9:00 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley60 min
Jun 6, 9:05 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDWichita55 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.