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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 12, 1994Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1994, 9:09 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1994, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1994, 9:31 PM CDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 266 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 78 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 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
78 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3144 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney36 min
Jul 12, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray, Meade29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.