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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 1, 1994Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1994, 10:37 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1994, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1994, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Pratt County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1432 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.1

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The text

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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.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 3:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 3:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
335 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 1994

LTST ADAP DATA SHOWS THRMODYNMIC TSTMS DVLPG NR EHA-NE NM-OK PNHNDL.
DYNAMICS RMNS BEST OVR TOP-OMA AREA TO NEB PNHNDL.  BLV SVR EPISODE TO
DVLP ACRS NCNTL/NE KS AND IN WW 532.  AN ADIABATIC LOW OVR E CO WL SERVE
TO PULL DRYLN WWD INTO BEST THETAE AXIS. THIS SHUD ALLOW FOR BACKBUILDING
MCS/MCC OVR OUR AREA TONITE.  BESIDES...WITH THIS MUCH THRMODYNAMICS AND
HEATING...A PRICE IS USUALLY PAID.

DDC 066/098 51     GCK 066/097 61      EHA 064/100 62
LBL 066/100 61     HYS 066/096 7-      P28 070/069 31
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RICKS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott45 min
Jul 1, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness34 min
Jul 1, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis27 min
Jul 1, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber18 min

Nearby

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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.