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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 30, 1994Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1994, 7:59 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 1994, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1994, 8:21 PM CDT
In force
22 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 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 30, 3:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
315 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 1994

LAMP DATA AND ADAP SHOW BEST MSTR CONVERG ALONG TRF FROM P28 AND
NEWRD. ACTUAL COLD FRONT STILL IN N KS WILL SLIDE SOUTH RAPIDLY
TONIGHT TO CATCH UP WITH TRF. 5MA AND SAT PICS SHOW SOUTH BRANCH
WAVE MOVING ACROSS SOUTH ROCKIES ATTM AND NOT HANDLED WELL BY MODELS.
ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER COLD FRONT WED SHOULD GENERATE RWS ACROSS W KS
ALONG WITH UPSLOPE LL FLOW.R

KRUSE

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.