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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 1993, 6:13 PM CDT for Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 1993, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 1993, 6:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Sep 18, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 18, 5:49 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-182345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 547 PM CDT SAT SEP 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING NORTH FROM THE OKLAHOMA BORDER... AT 545 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDE. THE STORMS WERE SITUATED FROM...25 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF LIBERAL..TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERAL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS THE OKLAHOMA-KANSAS BORDER WEST OF LIBERAL BY 600 PM CDT. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT WEST OF GREAT BEND TO MEDICINE LODGE LINE UNTIL 11PM CDTl. PERSONS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION BY WATCHING THE WEATHER CHANNEL...OR YOUR LISTENING TO YOUR FAVORITE RADIO STATION. BERG
Special weather statement, Sep 18, 5:52 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-182345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 547 PM CDT SAT SEP 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING NORTH FROM THE OKLAHOMA BORDER... AT 545 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THE STORMS WERE SITUATED FROM...25 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF LIBERAL..TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERAL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS THE OKLAHOMA-KANSAS BORDER WEST OF LIBERAL BY 600 PM CDT. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT WEST OF GREAT BEND TO MEDICINE LODGE LINE UNTIL 11PM CDT. PERSONS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION BY WATCHING THE WEATHER CHANNEL...OR LISTENING TO YOUR FAVORITE RADIO STATION. BERG
Special weather statement, Sep 18, 6:06 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
KSZ003-190015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 606 PM CDT SAT SEP 18 1993 ...A RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM WAS IN STEVENS COUNTY... AT 603 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF HUGOTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS NEAR WOODS BY 615 PM. HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 11 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Sep 18, 6:06 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
KSZ003-190015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 606 PM CDT SAT SEP 18 1993 ...A RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM WAS IN STEVENS COUNTY... AT 603 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF HUGOTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS NEAR WOODS BY 615 PM. HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 11 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 30 min |
| Sep 18, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 36 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.