Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1994, 6:49 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1994, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1994, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 2, 3:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 3:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 334 PM CDT FRI SEP 2 1994 EAST COLO AND NEAR KS/CO BRDR GETTING UNSTABLE UNDER INSOLATION. ADAP HAS LI'S OF -6 OR BETTER WITH LITTLE OR NO CAP. MODERATE CU APPARENTLY DVPG THIS AREA BUT SOME QUESTION TO THE DVPMNT OF CB'S. CONVECTION IS DVPG IN ROCKIES AND THIS WL BE MVG INTO THE PLAINS WHERE WWA AND INCRSG LLVL WNDS WL BE TAKING PLACE. THUS...STL A SLGT CHC TRW OVERNIGHT. ETA REALLY BOOSTS THE LI'S AND CAPES SATURDAY...WITH M/U 60 DEW POINTS EXPECTED. WL NEED A TRIGGER AND THIS MAY BE A S/WV TRF LATE TMRW... ESPLY TMRW NIGHT. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 69 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.