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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 2, 1993Morton County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1993, 6:47 PM CDT for Morton County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1993, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Morton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 12:00Z on 1993-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1993-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -83 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny43 min
Aug 2, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton49 min
Aug 2, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.