Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1993, 8:55 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1993, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1993, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hodgeman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 180156 RRA SVRDDC KSC083-180245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 855 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY AT 850 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF JETMORE KANSAS OR 30 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REMAIN OVER OPEN FARMLAND TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF JETMORE THROUGH 930 PM CDT. AT 850 PM CDT...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR...MARBLE SIZE HAIL...AND TREE LIMB DAMAGE WERE REPORTED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF JETMORE. TAKE SHELTER INDOORS IMMEDIATELY WITH THE APPROACH OF THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS. MB &
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, 6:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 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, 2 hours 11 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, 7:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 7:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 8:06 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
KSZ003-005-006-180200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 806 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SHOWERS...THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY WINDS WERE MOVING EAST THROUGH DODGE CITY...CIMARRON...MEADE AND MONTEZUMA... AT 805 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG GUSTY WEST WINDS FROM AROUND DIGHTON SOUTH THROUGH KALVESTA...CHARLESTON... COPELAND...SUBLETTE AND LIBERAL. THE BAND OF WINDS WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A FEW DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVED EAST. IT SHOULD REACH MEADE...MONTEZUMA AND CIMARRON BEFORE 830 PM AND DODGE CITY...MINNEOLA AND JETMORE BY AROUND 900 PM. AS THE BAND PASSES...WINDS WILL SHIFT SHARPLY WEST AND GUST UP TO AROUND 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUED UNTIL 1100 PM CDT NORTH OF A LIBERAL TO DODGE CITY TO GREEAT BEND LINE... . ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WAS IN EFFECT TONIGHT ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96... YOU SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS DURING A THUNDERSTORM TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM DEADLY LIGHTNING. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 8:08 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
KSZ003-005-006-180200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 806 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SHOWERS...THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY WINDS WERE MOVING EAST THROUGH DODGE CITY...CIMARRON...MEADE AND MONTEZUMA... AT 805 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG GUSTY WEST WINDS FROM AROUND DIGHTON SOUTH THROUGH KALVESTA...CHARLESTON... COPELAND...SUBLETTE AND LIBERAL. THE BAND OF WINDS WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A FEW DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVED EAST. IT SHOULD REACH MEADE...MONTEZUMA AND CIMARRON BEFORE 830 PM AND DODGE CITY...MINNEOLA AND JETMORE BY AROUND 900 PM. AS THE BAND PASSES...WINDS WILL SHIFT SHARPLY WEST AND GUST UP TO AROUND 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUED UNTIL 1100 PM CDT NORTH OF A LIBERAL TO DODGE CITY TO GREEAT BEND LINE... . ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WAS IN EFFECT TONIGHT ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96... YOU SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS DURING A THUNDERSTORM TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM DEADLY LIGHTNING. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 30 min |
| 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, 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every 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.