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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 17, 1993Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1993, 7:01 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 1993, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1993, 7:31 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 2798 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.8

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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 17, 4:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:40 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

KSZ002-003-005-006-008-180100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
640 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993

...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS WEST OF GARDEN CITY...

DOPPLER RADAR FROM DODGE CITY AT 635 PM SHOWED A NARROW BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS
ABOUT 15 MILES WIDE STRETCHING FROM ELKHART NORTH TO LEOTI. LEOTI IS 25
WEST OF SCOTT CITY.  FROM LEOTI THE BAND OF STORMS TURNS NORTHEAST AND
STRETCHES ALONG A COLD FRONT TO CONCORDIA KANSAS.

THE ALMOST SOLID LINE OF STORMS ALONG THIS BAND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 5 TO 10 MPH.  SOME CITIES AHEAD OF THE STORMS PATH INCLUDE ULYSSES
...HOLCOMB AND SCOTT CITY.  THESE CITIES CAN EXPECT THE STORMS TO ARRIVE
AROUND 7:30 PM AND ESPECIALLY THE LAKIN AREA CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE SHARE OS SOUTHWEST
KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM.  ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WERE ALONG THIS BAND
AND NO OTHER STORMS APPEAR ON RADAR BASICALLY EAST OF A LIBERAL TO

GARDEN CITY LINE AT 740 PM.

NOLLER

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:44 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

KSZ002-003-005-006-008-180100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
640 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993

...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS WEST OF GARDEN CITY...

DOPPLER RADAR FROM DODGE CITY AT 635 PM SHOWED A NARROW BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS
ABOUT 15 MILES WIDE STRETCHING FROM ELKHART NORTH TO LEOTI. LEOTI IS 25
WEST OF SCOTT CITY.  FROM LEOTI THE BAND OF STORMS TURNS NORTHEAST AND
STRETCHES ALONG A COLD FRONT TO CONCORDIA KANSAS.

THE ALMOST SOLID LINE OF STORMS ALONG THIS BAND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 5 TO 10 MPH.  SOME CITIES AHEAD OF THE STORMS PATH INCLUDE ULYSSES
...HOLCOMB AND SCOTT CITY.  THESE CITIES CAN EXPECT THE STORMS TO ARRIVE
AROUND 7:30 PM AND ESPECIALLY THE LAKIN AREA CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE SHARE OS SOUTHWEST
KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM.  ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WERE ALONG THIS BAND
AND NO OTHER STORMS APPEAR ON RADAR BASICALLY EAST OF A LIBERAL TO

GARDEN CITY LINE AT 740 PM.

NOLLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	45 min
Jul 17, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	52 min
Jul 17, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	50 min
Jul 17, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	42 min
Jul 17, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	42 min
Jul 18, 1:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	7 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.