Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1993, 9:03 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1993, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 2058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 severe thunderstorm 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, Jul 13, 7:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-140200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 758 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF A GARDEN CITY TO DODGE CITY LINE... AT 757 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS FROM WAKEENEY AND HAYS SOUTH INTO DODGE CITY AND GREENSBURG. THE STORMS WERE SLOWLY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH 930 PM IN DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...JETMORE AND KINSLEY. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ELLIS...RUSH AND PAWNEE COUNTIES. WARM AND MUGGY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING ACROSS THE REGION. 8PM READINGS IN THE 70S ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BACK INTO THE MID TO UPPER 60S AROUND MIDNIGHT. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD MOVE SOUTH AND REACH THE LIBERAL...MEDICINE LODGE AND ASHLAND AREAS AFTER 10 PM. BERG vvfFFWVWWUS6 tGBf6WWUS V1WSCAf <N 13s FTUS r-FPAK p=FTUS PI`WWUS l g@ `OFTUE y-FPAKE6WWUS \XWOUS _6WWUS \AH WUUSx UWWUS M=HWWJP, DZ&6WWUS xMWWUS pS6WWUS dX%FTUE $|dFQUS ` gf6WWUS 03Z C40 BKNOCNL RW- C40 BKN. q6WWUS u 6WWUS pc<6WWUS < 5Z 30 SCKN 1607 OCNL BKN 3TRW-.Z MVFR CRW.. LAF FT 140024hx WUUS |cq`WWUS o6WWUS` hj&6WWUS ,tWWUS |6WWUS qI`WWUSR
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-140200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 758 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF A GARDEN CITY TO DODGE CITY LINE... AT 757 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS FROM WAKEENEY AND HAYS SOUTH INTO DODGE CITY AND GREENSBURG. THE STORMS WERE SLOWLY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH 930 PM IN DODGE CITY...BUCKLIN...JETMORE AND KINSLEY. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ELLIS...RUSH AND PAWNEE COUNTIES. WARM AND MUGGY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING ACROSS THE REGION. 8PM READINGS IN THE 70S ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BACK INTO THE MID TO UPPER 60S AROUND MIDNIGHT. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD MOVE SOUTH AND REACH THE LIBERAL...MEDICINE LODGE AND ASHLAND AREAS AFTER 10 PM. BERG
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:29 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-140230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 829 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM CDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM. SOME OF THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: LANE...NESS...SCOTT...LANE...TREGO...ELLIS...RUSH...CLARK...GRAY KEARN...STEVENS...FINNEY...HAMILTON...MEADE...FORD...HASKELL MORTON...GRANT...HODGEMAN...STANTON...BARBER...PRATT...COMANCHE EDWARDS...KIOWA...PAWNEE AND STAFFORD. SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: WAKEENEY...HAYS...SCOTT CITY...NESS CITY...LARNED...SYRACUSE GARDEN CITY...ULYSSES...ELKHART...LIBERAL...DODGE CITY...PRATT GREENSBURG...MEDICINE LODGE...LACROSSE...COLDWATER AND MEADE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN WESTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION INCLUDING POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FAGEN
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:31 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-140230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 829 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM CDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM. SOME OF THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: LANE...NESS...SCOTT...LANE...TREGO...ELLIS...RUSH...CLARK...GRAY KEARN...STEVENS...FINNEY...HAMILTON...MEADE...FORD...HASKELL MORTON...GRANT...HODGEMAN...STANTON...BARBER...PRATT...COMANCHE EDWARDS...KIOWA...PAWNEE AND STAFFORD. SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: WAKEENEY...HAYS...SCOTT CITY...NESS CITY...LARNED...SYRACUSE GARDEN CITY...ULYSSES...ELKHART...LIBERAL...DODGE CITY...PRATT GREENSBURG...MEDICINE LODGE...LACROSSE...COLDWATER AND MEADE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN WESTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION INCLUDING POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FAGEN
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:53 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-140230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 853 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHES FROM CIMARRON TO ST. JOHN AND WAS MOVING SOUTH ... AT 850 PM CDT THE LEADING EDGE OF A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM CIMARRON TO DODGE CITY TO 20 MILES NORTH OF GREENSBURG...NEAR TROUSDALE. THE BAND WAS ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIEST RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS BAND WERE OVER DODGE CITY AND ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF LARNED...NEAR ST. JOHN. THE THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING TONIGHT HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...UPWARDS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR AT SOME LOCATIONS. SMALL CREEK AND STREAM FLASH FLOODING AS WELL HAS URBAN STREET FLOODING IS A POSSIBILITY WITH THESE STOMS IN THE DODGE CITY VICINITY. PERSONS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING ACROSS ANY HIGH WATER THAT COVERS ANY ROADS. SOME TOWNS THAT CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE 10 PM INCLUDE FORD...MULLENVILLE...GREENSBURG AND PRATT KANSAS. MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS INCLUDED IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:56 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-140230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 853 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHES FROM CIMARRON TO ST. JOHN AND WAS MOVING SOUTH ... AT 850 PM CDT THE LEADING EDGE OF A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM CIMARRON TO DODGE CITY TO 20 MILES NORTH OF GREENSBURG...NEAR TROUSDALE. THE BAND WAS ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIEST RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS BAND WERE OVER DODGE CITY AND ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF LARNED...NEAR ST. JOHN. THE THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING TONIGHT HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...UPWARDS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR AT SOME LOCATIONS. SMALL CREEK AND STREAM FLASH FLOODING AS WELL HAS URBAN STREET FLOODING IS A POSSIBILITY WITH THESE STOMS IN THE DODGE CITY VICINITY. PERSONS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING ACROSS ANY HIGH WATER THAT COVERS ANY ROADS. SOME TOWNS THAT CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE 10 PM INCLUDE FORD...MULLENVILLE...GREENSBURG AND PRATT KANSAS. MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS INCLUDED IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 116 min |
| Jul 13, 9:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 119 min |
| Jul 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 55 min |
| Jul 13, 10:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Gray | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards | 3 hr |
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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.