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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 22, 1993Finney County, Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1993, 10:01 PM CDT for Finney County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 1993, 10:01 PM CDT (03:01 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1993, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 7.6

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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 22, 9:02 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-230300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
902 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1993

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN KANSAS...

AT 858 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM
WAKEENEY...TO 10 MILES WEST OF NESS CITY..TO GARDEN CITY. THE LINE OF
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.

ANY OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...WINDS UP TO 40
MPH...AND HEAVY RAINS.

IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT.  THESE STORMS MAY
PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

HANSON

Special weather statement, May 22, 9:05 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-230300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
902 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1993

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN KANSAS...

AT 858 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM
WAKEENEY...TO 10 MILES WEST OF NESS CITY..TO GARDEN CITY. THE LINE OF
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.

ANY OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...WINDS UP TO 40
MPH...AND HEAVY RAINS.

IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT.  THESE STORMS MAY
PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

HANSON

Special weather statement, May 22, 9:44 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	33 min
May 22, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	68 min
May 22, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	62 min
May 22, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	45 min
May 22, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1993 Every 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.