Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1993, 3:02 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1993, 3:02 AM CDT (08:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1993, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 150802 RRA SVRDDC KSC057-150845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 302 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN FORD COUNTY AT 300 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DODGE CITY. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES SLOWLY EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSON IN DODGE CITY SHOULD STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE STORM WILL AFFECT DODGE CITY THROUGH AT LEAST 325 AM AND INTO WRIGHT BY 315 AM AND POSSIBLY INTO SPEARVILLE BY 330 AM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINSX FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.
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, Jun 15, 2:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KSZ003-006-150800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 201 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY WERE INCREASING IN NUMBERS AT 158 AM. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY OR JUST WEST OF MEADE AND 30 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY OR SOUTHEAST OF FOWLER. THE CLOSEST SHOWER TO DODGE CITY WAS 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOWN. NONE OF THE STORMS WERE SEVERE BUT WERE STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH DEADLY LIGHTNING. THROUGH 300 AM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE FROM DODGE CITY... SOUTHEAST TO COLDWATER AND WEST TO NEAR LIBERAL AND MEADE. REMEMBER THAT LIGHTNING CAN KILL SO STAY INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 2:03 AM CDT, 59 minutes before
KSZ003-006-150800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 201 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY WERE INCREASING IN NUMBERS AT 158 AM. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY OR JUST WEST OF MEADE AND 30 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY OR SOUTHEAST OF FOWLER. THE CLOSEST SHOWER TO DODGE CITY WAS 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOWN. NONE OF THE STORMS WERE SEVERE BUT WERE STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH DEADLY LIGHTNING. THROUGH 300 AM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTO6RMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE FROM DODGE CITY... SOUTHEAST TO COLDWATER AND WEST TO NEAR LIBERAL AND MEADE. REMEMBER THAT LIGHTNING CAN KILL SO STAY INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 2:55 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-150900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 255 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...ANOTHER NIGHT OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEGUN IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS HAVE FORMED RATHER QUICKLY IN THE DODGE CITY AREA AND SOUTH TO THE OKLAHOMA BORDER THIS MORNING. AT 254 AM DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN FORD AND CLARK COUNTIES WITH MORE STORMS DEVELOPING IN THE GREENSBURG AREA OF KIOWA COUNTY AND SOUTH TO THE OKLAHOMA LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 254 AM WERE OVER DODGE CITY WHERE HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 2:55 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-150900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 255 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 1993 ...ANOTHER NIGHT OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEGUN IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS HAVE FORMED RATHER QUICKLY IN THE DODGE CITY AREA AND SOUTH TO THE OKLAHOMA BORDER THIS MORNING. AT 254 AM DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN FORD AND CLARK COUNTIES WITH MORE STORMS DEVELOPING IN THE GREENSBURG AREA OF KIOWA COUNTY AND SOUTH TO THE OKLAHOMA LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 254 AM WERE OVER DODGE CITY WHERE HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 33 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.