Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1993, 6:44 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1993, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hodgeman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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
- 648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 192346 RRA SVRDDC KSC083-200030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 644 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...HODGEMAN COUNTY AT 640 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF JETMORE...OR 20 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 156...REACHING THE JETMORE AREA AROUND 715 PM CDT. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PERSONS IN THE JETMORE AREA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY...PREFERABLY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR BASEMENT IN AN INTERIOR ROOM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY $RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. CRAVEN
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, Aug 19, 4:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-192245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 450 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 445 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER LIBERAL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING JUST EAST OF MINNEOLA...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY...AND IN THE ELKHART AREA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM ELSEWHERE ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH 600 PM CDT. THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARE SOUTH OF A ULYSSES...DODGE CITY...PRATT LINE. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP. MOVE INDOORS INTO A STURDY BUILDING AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THUNDER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE WEATHER CHANNEL FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION THIS EVENING. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-192245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 450 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 445 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER LIBERAL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING JUST EAST OF MINNEOLA...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY...AND IN THE ELKHART AREA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM ELSEWHERE ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH 600 PM CDT. THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARE SOUTH OF A ULYSSES...DODGE CITY...PRATT LINE. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP. MOVE INDOORS INTO A STURDY BUILDING AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THUNDER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE WEATHER CHANNEL FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION THIS EVENING. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-192330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 531 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50... AT 525 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING JUST SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY AND IN THE KALVESTA AREA...25 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY BY 600 PM CDT IN THE SCOTT CITY AND KALVESTA AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE AREA GENERALLY SOUTH OF A NESS CITY...GREAT BEND LINE THROUGH 700 PM CDT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-192330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 531 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50... AT 525 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING JUST SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY AND IN THE KALVESTA AREA...25 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY BY 600 PM CDT IN THE SCOTT CITY AND KALVESTA AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE AREA GENERALLY SOUTH OF A NESS CITY...GREAT BEND LINE THROUGH 700 PM CDT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:46 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-192345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 546 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 538 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIBERAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY NEAR THE CIMMARRON RIVER DURING THROUGH 610 PM CDT...THEN APPROACH THE MEADE STATE LAKE AREA AFTER 630 PM CDT. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER BETWEEN LIBERAL AND MEDICINE LODGE AND IN THE SCOTT CITY AND KALVESTA AREAS...25 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. AT 530 PM CDT A SPOTTER 5 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL REPORTED 40 TO 45 MILE AN HOUR WINDS AS THIS STORM PASSED. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL...AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD BE PREPRARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. NEVER TAKE SHELTER UNDER A TREE AS LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE THE TREE. CRAVEN &
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:47 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-192345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 546 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 538 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIBERAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY NEAR THE CIMMARRON RIVER DURING THROUGH 610 PM CDT...THEN APPROACH THE MEADE STATE LAKE AREA AFTER 630 PM CDT. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER BETWEEN LIBERAL AND MEDICINE LODGE AND IN THE SCOTT CITY AND KALVESTA AREAS...25 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. AT 530 PM CDT A SPOTTER 5 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL REPORTED 40 TO 45 MILE AN HOUR WINDS AS THIS STORM PASSED. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL...AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD BE PREPRARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. NEVER TATKE SHELTER UNDER A TREE AS LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE THE TREE. CRAVEN &
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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.