Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1993, 7:16 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 1993, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1993, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 1353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KDDC 010018 RRA SVRDDC KSC057-083-010100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 716 PM CDT FRI APR 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN FORD COUNTY AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN FORD COUNTY...10 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY...AND WILL BE REMAINING IN NORTHERN FORD COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE NORTH OR NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A STURDY BUILDING...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...NOW!!! A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 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. VAN TRESS
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, Apr 30, 5:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
KSZ003-005-006-302345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 540 PM CDT FRI APR 30 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST LANE COUNTY... AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN DODGE CITY WAS SHOWING A STRONG THUNDERSTROM DEVELOPING NORTHEASTERN LANE COUNTY...15 MILES NORTHEAST OF DIGHTON...OR 35 MPH SOUTWEST OF WAKEENEY. MOVEMENT ON THIS STORM HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERSONS IN NORTHEASTERN LANE COUNTY...IN THE VICINITY OF PENDENNIS SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IMMEDIATELY. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS STORM. VAN TRESS
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 5:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-010000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 555 PM CDT FRI APR 30 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO HAMILTON COUNTY... AT 555 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN DODGE CITY SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO NORTHWESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY FROM COLORADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYRACUSE...AND WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO THE VICINITY OF SYRACUSE 620 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...LOTS OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. TUNE TO THIS STATION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS STORM. VAN TRESS
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 6:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
KSZ006-010000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 559 PM CDT FRI APR 30 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN CLARK COUNTY.... AT 555 PM CDT...NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL GENERALLY REMAIN IN THE ASHLAND...ENGLEWOOD AND SITKA AREAS THROUGH 630 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION...DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...UNDERPASSES...STREETS...AND ROADS MAY OCCUR. IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY...YOU SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS AND AVOID USING ELECTICAL EQUIPMENT DUE TO THE LIGHTNING STRIKES. MB
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 6:30 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
KSZ003-005-006-010030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 627 PM CDT FRI APR 30 1993 ...ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO CLARK COUNTY FROM OKLAHOMA... AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN DODGE CITY SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 60 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EGLEWOOD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY...IN THE VICINITY OF ENGLEWOOD...BY 645 PM CDT. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY...IN THE VICINITY OF ENGLEWOOD SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION. THESE STRONGER STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS...AND HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IMMEDIATELY! TUNE TO THIS STATION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN FORMAITON ON THIS STORM. VAN TRESS
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 6:38 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-010030-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
635 PM CDT FRI APR 30 1993
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR AND IN DODGE CITY...
AT 635 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING OVER DODGE CITY. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH AND WILL BE OUT OF DODGE CITY
BY 645 PM.
ANOTHER STORM IN FORD COUTNY WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF DODGE
CITY AND WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL ALSO
REMAIN OVER OPEN FARMLAND IN NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY...AND SOUTHWESTERN
HODGEMAN COUNTY BY 645 PM CDT.
PERSONS IN DODGE CITY AND IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STRONGER STORMS
SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION...AND" IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS
IMMEDIATELY!
TUNE TO THIS STATION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION
ON THIS STORM.
VAN TRESSSpecial weather statement, Apr 30, 6:39 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
KSZ003-010045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 636 PM CDT FRI APR 30 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY... AT 632 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE KANSAS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY AS IT MOVES INTO NORTHWEST KEARNY COUNTY BY 715 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU LIVE IN NORTHEAST HAMILTON COUNTY AND NORTHWEST KEARNY COUNTY...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CON,DITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM MOVES THROUGH. MB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 47 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.