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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 16, 1993Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 1993, 5:41 AM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 1993, 5:41 AM CDT (10:41 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 1993, 6:15 AM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 263 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1993-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1061 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1993-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 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
1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 4:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord49 min
Oct 16, 4:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray49 min
Oct 16, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord43 min

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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.