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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 27, 1993Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1993, 5:19 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1993, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1993, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Scott County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 1993-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1322 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCScott51 min
Aug 27, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane37 min
Aug 27, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness29 min

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.