Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1993, 2:47 AM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1993, 2:47 AM CDT (07:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1993, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 260747 RRA SVRDDC KSC189-260845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 247 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 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 ...STEVENS COUNTY AT 247 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A PAIR OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN MORTON COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE OVER RICHFIELD AND OVER ROLLA AND WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THEY WILL CROSS THE COUNTY LINE INTO WESTERN STEVENS COUNTY BY 300 AM CDT. THESE STORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTH AND 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELKHART AND HAD PRODUCED TENNIS BALL SIZED HAIL JUST WEST OF RICHFIELD AND GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL 3 MILES NORTH OF RICHFIELD. YOU SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW FROM THESE DANGEROUS STORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH..B.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 RAINS 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 26, 1:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
KSZ003-260730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 133 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 1993 ...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD JOHNSON AND ELKHART... AT 127 AM CDT (1227 AM MDT)...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHWEST KANSAS BORDER OUT OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STORM WAS 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKHART AND 30 MILES WEST OF MANTER. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 12 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS THE KANSAS BORDER INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST STANTON COUNTY BY 230 AM CDT. RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM TO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST STANTON COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THE STORM BECOMES THREATENING. MEANWHILE...ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND OVER THE CIMARRON NATIONAL GRASSLAND IN MORTON COUNTY NORTH OF ELKHART. THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TREK EAST NORTHEASTWARD INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITH RAIN POSSIBLE AT SYRACUSE...ULYSSES...ELKHART AND LIBERAL BEFORE DAWN. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
KSZ003-260730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 133 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 1993 ...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD JOHNSON AND ELKHART... AT 127 AM CDT (1227 AM MDT)...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHWEST KANSAS BORDER OUT OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STORM WAS 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKHART AND 30 MILES WEST OF MANTER. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 12 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS THE KANSAS BORDER INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST STANTON COUNTY BY 230 AM CDT. RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM TO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST STANTON COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THE STORM BECOMES THREATENING. MEANWHILE...ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND OVER THE CIMARRON NATIONAL GRASSLAND IN MORTON COUNTvY NORTH OF ELKHART. THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TREK EAST NORTHEASTWARD INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITH RAIN POSSIBLE AT SYRACUSE...ULYSSES...ELKHART AND LIBERAL BEFORE DAWN. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 68 min |
| Jun 26, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 16 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.