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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 13, 1993Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 1993, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 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, 2.5 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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, 8:53 PM CDT, 37 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, 34 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, 9:26 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 9:28 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 9:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	27 min
Jul 13, 9:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ford	119 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.