Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1993, 7:52 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1993, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1993, 8:34 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 040053 TORDDC KSC187-040145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 752 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...WESTERN STANTON COUNTY AT 750 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO ALONG THE COLORADO BORDER 20 MILES WEST OF JOHNSON AND MOVING EAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WAS 45 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES. IT WILL BE 4 MILES NORTH OF MANTER BY 810 PM CDT. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FROM THIS DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVVOID WINDOWS. JOHNSON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 3, 4:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-032300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 404 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN THREATEN MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM CDT (4 PM MDT) UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 400 PM CDT...DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN COLORADO WERE MOVING STEADILY SOUTHEAST AND WILL REACH THE KANSAS/COLORADO BORDER NEAR SYRACUSE BY AROUND 530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT). SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. THE TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA GENERALLY WEST OF A LEOTI TO LIBERAL LINE. YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. BE PREPARED TO SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. IF A TORNADO DEVELOPS...A WARNING WILL BE ISSUED AND YOU SHOULD SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-032300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 404 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN THREATEN MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM CDT (4 PM MDT) UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 400 PM CDT...DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN COLORADO WERE MOVING STEADILY SOUTHEAST AND WILL REACH THE KANSAS/COLORADO BORDER NEAR SYRACUSE BY AROUND 530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT). SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. THE TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA GENERALLY WEST OF A LEOTI TO LIBERAL LINE. YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. BE PREPARED TO SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. IF A TORNADO DEVELOPS...A WARNING WILL BE ISSUED AND YOU SHOULD SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
KSZ003-032300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 458 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS TAKING AIM ON NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY... AT 457 PM ( 357 PM MDT)...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYRACUSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE OVER OPEN FARMLAND IN NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY BY 530 PM CDT...430 PM MDT. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT WEST OF A LINE FROM LEOTI TO LIBERAL. BERG
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
KSZ003-032300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 458 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS TAKING AIM ON NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY... AT 457 PM ( 357 PM MDT)...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYRACUSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE OVER OPEN FARMLAND IN NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY BY 530 PM CDT...430 PM MDT. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT WEST OF A LINE FROM LEOTI TO LIBERAL. BERG
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
KSZ003-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 545 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WEST OF A LEOTI TO LIBERAL LINE UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 544 PM CDT...444 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EASTERN COLORADO 23 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE...ALONG HIGHWAY 50. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 17 MPH AND WILL REACH COOLIDGE BY 615 CDT...515 MDT. PEOPLE IN WESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY SHOULD STAY TUNED TO THE LOCAL MEDIA OR YOUR TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS STORM. BERG
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
KSZ003-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 545 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WEST OF A LEOTI TO LIBERAL LINE UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 544 PM CDT...444 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EASTERN COLORADO 23 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE...ALONG HIGHWAY 50. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 17 MPH AND WILL REACH COOLIDGE BY 61f5 CDT...515 MDT. PEOPLE IN WESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY SHOULD STAY TUNED TO THE LOCAL MEDIA OR YOUR TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS STORM. BERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 28 min |
| Jun 3, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 29 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.