Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1993, 4:13 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1993, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1993, 4:43 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, May 7, 11:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
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KSZ005-006-008-009-072130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 328 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL KANSAS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOME COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE...ELLIS...RUSH...BARBER...PRATT...COMMANCHE...KIOWA... PAWNEE...AND STAFFORD COUNTIES. CITIES INCLUDED ARE...HAYS...PRATT... MEDICINE LODGE...LARNED...GREENSBURG...AND ST. JOHN. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU LIVE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH...YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS IS AN ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR CENTRAL KANSAS. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS TO A BASEMENT OR REINFORCED ROOM. MB
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:30 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
KSZ005-006-008-009-072130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 328 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL KANSAS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOME COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE...ELLIS...RUSH...BARBER...PRATT...COMMANCHE...KIOWA... PAWNEE...AND STAFFORD COUNTIES. CITIES INCLUDED ARE...HAYS...PRATT... MEDICINE LODGE...LARNED...GREENSBURG...AND ST. JOHN. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU LIVE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH...YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNlINGS. THIS IS AN ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR CENTRAL KANSAS. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS TO A BASEMENT OR REINFORCED ROOM. MB
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:58 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
KSZ008-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 358 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP NORTHWEST OF LARNED KANSAS... AT 355 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP 15 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST OF LARNED KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE LACROSSE AREA BY AROUND 420 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THESE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. REMEMBER THAT A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT AND YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. MB
Special weather statement, May 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
KSZ008-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 358 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP NORTHWEST OF LARNED KANSAS... AT 355 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP 15 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST OF LARNED KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE LACROSSE AREA BY AROUND 420 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THESE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. REMEMBER THAT A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT AND YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. MB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 44 min |
| May 7, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 52 min |
| May 7, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 43 min |
| May 7, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 43 min |
| May 7, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 54 min |
| May 7, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 28 min |
| May 7, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 34 min |
| May 7, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 17 min |
| May 7, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 39 min |
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pratt, Stafford | 60 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.