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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 12, 1993Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1993, 7:52 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1993, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1993, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 927 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
927 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2426 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.