Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1994, 1:47 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1994, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1994, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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 12:00Z, 6.8 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.
- 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 251849 RRA SVRDDC KSC151-251915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 147 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN PRATT COUNTY AT 147 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AROUND HAVILAND OR 20 MILES WEST OF PRATT. THE STORM WILL REACH HOPEWELL AND BYERS BY 215 PM. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. YOU SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE T:HUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. JOHNSON
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, 12:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
KSZ046-065-066-079-251800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1201 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING... AT 1155 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL EDWARDS COUNTY...5 MILES EAST OF KINSLEY...MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 50 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE LARNED AREA BY 1230 PM CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH PRATT BY 1230 PM CDT.> PERSONS IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM. KRUSE
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 12:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
KSZ031-046-065-066-251845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1237 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO RUSH AND STAFFORD COUNTIES... AT 1235 CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LACROSSE EXTENDING TO THE VICINITY OF LARNED AND CONTINUING SOUTHWARD TO KIOWA KANSAS. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED JUST WEST OF ASH VALLEY OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF LACROSSE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 45 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE INTO THE LACROSSE AREA BY 1 PM AND ENTER ELLIS COUNTY BY 130 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT AS WELL. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP WITH L TOR NO ADVANCE WARNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY BELOW SEVERE LEVELS BUT MAY THEY MAY INTENSIFY IN RAPID FASHION. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER ON TV OR RADIO. RICKS
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 1:06 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
KSZ030-031-045-046-065-066-079-080-081-089-090-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 105 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE IN CENTRAL KANSAS... ...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS OCCURRING IN SOUTH KANSAS... AT 1 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM WAKEENEY...TO 10 MILES WEST OF GREAT BEND TO THE VICINITY OF ANTHONY. THIS ARCH OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH TREGO AND ELLIS COUNTIES BY 130 PM CDT. ALSO...RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED IN COMANCHE COUNTY 10 MILES WEST OF COLDWATER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE IN THE COLDWATER AREA BY 120 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS IN YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. RICKS
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 1:07 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
KSZ063-076-077-087-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 107 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...THE TORNADO WATCH IS CANCELLED AROUND GARDEN CITY...SUBLETTE...MEADE ...AND CIMARRON... AT 105 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD CLEARED THE AREA MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST. NO FURTHER STORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE AFTERNOON SO THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN THIS AREA. UNFORTUNATELY...THE WIND WILL CONTINUE TO BLOW. ...A WIND ADVISORY REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON... THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON SHOULD SEE 30 TO 40 MPH SOUTH WIND WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS AND THAT MAY CAUSE SOME BLOWING DUST. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL HIT THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 1:18 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
KSZ043>045-064-078-088-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 118 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...THE TORNADO WATCH IS CANCELLED AROUND SCOTT CITY...NESS CITY... DIGHTON...JETMORE...DODGE CITY AND ASHLAND... AT 118 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD CLEARED THE AREA MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST. NO FURTHER STORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE AFTERNOON SO THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN THIS AREA. UNFORTUNATELY...THE WIND WILL CONTINUE TO BLOW. ...A WIND ADVISORY REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON... THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON SHOULD SEE 30 TO 40 MPH SOUTH WIND WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS AND THAT MAY CAUSE SOME BLOWING DUST. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL HIT THE LOW TO MID 80S. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 1:31 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
KSC047-145-165-251930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 129 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 AT 129 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILEHS WEST SOUTHWEST OF LARNED 15 MILES SOUTH OF ROZEL AND WILL BE IN ROZEL BY 140 PM CDT. THIS STORM COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE AND SHOULD BE WATCHED CAREFULLY. STAY INDOORS DURING A THUNDERSTORM. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 39 min |
| Apr 25, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.