Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1993, 3:43 AM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1993, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1993, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
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, Jun 26, 1:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 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, 2 hours 9 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, 2:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 58 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.