Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1994, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Aug 18, 9:22 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 9:22 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 920 PM CDT THU AUG 18 1994 GOOD AREA OF TRW MOVG INTO WEST CWA SHORTLY AND IS IN AREA OF BEST SFC MSTR CONVERG. MORE RWS BEHIND MAIN LINE ALSO BACK IN COLORADO. LOOKS LIKE TSRMS TO CONTINUE EAST WITH STRONGER VORT AND MOVING INTO THETA E AXIS WITH SOME PULSE SEVERE ACTIVITY. SFC TROF PUSHING EAST TO BRING TRW TO DDC TO P28 AFTER MID AND QUICKLY PUSH EAST OUT OF CWA BY 12Z. MSTLY CLDY SKIES AND MORE RW LIKELY WITH NEXT WEAK VORT AND 70 PERCENT MEAN RH ON FRIDAY PM. MCC DEVELOPING FROM SCOTT CITY TO WAKEENEY WITH ITS OWN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. KRUSE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 9:20 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
KSZ043-044-063-190330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 921 PM CDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...STRONG WIND GUSTS WELL IN ADVANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARDS SCOTT CITY AND GARDEN CITY... AT 916 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SQUALL FRONT DEVELOPING FROM ABOUT DIGHTON TO SCOTT CITY SOUTHWARD TO JUST WEST OF GARDEN CITY. WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH ARE LIKELY TO IMPACT SCOTT CITY AS WELL AS GARDEN CITY BEFORE 930 PM. PERSONS IN SCOTT...LANE AND FINNEY COUNTIES MAY WISH TO SECURE ITEMS OUTSIDE IMMEDIATELY. STRONG WINDS WILL LIKELY MAINTAIN 30 MPH LEVELS FOR 15 TO 20 MINUTES PRIOR TO ABATING. MONITOR LOCAL TV...RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RICKS
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 9:21 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
KSZ043-044-063-190330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 921 PM CDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...STRONG WIND GUSTS WELL IN ADVANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARDS SCOTT CITY AND GARDEN CITY... AT 916 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SQUALL FRONT DEVELOPING FROM ABOUT DIGHTON TO SCOTT CITY SOUTHWARD TO JUST WEST OF GARDEN CITY. WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH ARE LIKELY TO IMPACT SCOTT CITY AS WELL AS GARDEN CITY BEFORE 930 PM. PERSONS IN SCOTT...LANE AND FINNEY COUNTIES MAY WISH TO SECURE ITEMS OUTSIDE IMMEDIATELY. STRONG WINDS WILL LIKELY MAINTAIN 30 MPH LEVELS FOR 15 TO 20 MINUTES PRIOR TO ABATING. MONITOR LOCAL TV...RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RICKS
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 9:54 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 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.