Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1994, 11:36 AM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1994, 11:36 AM CDT (16:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1994, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 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 251644 SVRDDC KSC007-251715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1136 AM CDT MON APR 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...BARBER COUNTY AT 1145 CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CROSSING THE OKLAHOMA STATE LINE INTO BARBER COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTH AT 50 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE HARDTNER COMMUNITY AREA BY NOON AND IN THE MEDICINE LODGE AREA BY 1210. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM IS STRONG DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. RICKS
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, Apr 25, 9:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-252300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1000 AM CDT SUN APR 24 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING KANSAS COUNTIES: BARBER FINNEY HASKELL MEADE RUSH STEVENS CLARK FORD HODGEMAN MORTON SCOTT TREGO COMANCHE GRANT KEARNY NESS SEWARD EDWARDS GRAY KIOWA PAWNEE STAFFORD ELLIS HAMILTON LANE PRATT STANTON ...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL KANSAS COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY TODAY... SYNOPSIS: ABUNDANT MOISTURE WITH 60 PLUS DEWPOINTS CONTINUES TO LINGER OVER MUCH OF KANSAS. COLD AIR ALOFT IS APPROACHING FROM NEW MEXICO AND WILL SERVE TO DESTABILIZE THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION AS THE DAY CONTINUES. AT THIS TIME IT IS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE WHERE THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP INITIALLY SO THE ENTIRE WARNING AREA IS BEING PLACED ON ALERT. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTERS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION TODAY AND BE PREPARED TO BE DISPATCHED THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED THROUGHOUT THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. A WIND ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR TODAY. AFTER THE DRYLINE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA...IT WILL SERVE TO REDUCE THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER FROM THE WESTERN COUNTIES. HOWEVER...A STRONG SOUTHWEST WIND OF 30 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR IS FORECAST. RICKS
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 11:17 AM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1113 AM CDT MON APR 25 1994 KSZ077>081-087>090-252045- SCOTT CITY TO JETMORE TO ST JOHN SOUTH TO THE OKLAHOMA LINE ...THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP BY NOON AND MOVE QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST. AT THIS TIME AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED IN COMANCHE COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS GENERALLY EAST OF A SCOTT CITY TO LIBERAL LINE ARE REQUESTED TO ACTIVATE SPOTTERS AT THIS TIME. TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL APPROACH 80 WITH STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. RICKS
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 11:29 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043-044-045-046-063-064-065-066-077-078-079-080-081- 086-087-088-089-090-251730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1126 AM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 8 PM FOR A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... ...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 112O AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES WEST OF COLDWATER. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL BE AT GREENSBURG BY 1145 AM CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING BARBER COUNTY AND WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF KIOWA AND MEDICINE LODGE BY 1145 AM. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES. PREPARE NOW FOR WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF A TORNADO THREATENS YOUR AREA. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO...OR THE WEATHER CHANNEL FOR THE LATEST ON THIS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. RBICKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 40 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.