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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 7, 1994Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1994, 6:17 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 7, 1994, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 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.

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 7, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994

DISC...18Z ADAP INDCTD MOISTURE HAS INCREASED DRAMTICALLY ACROSS
REGION THIS AFTN WITH DEWPOINTS GENERALLY IN THE LOW TO MID 60S.
WITH MOISTURE AND SPEED CONVERGENCE EVIDENT BIG QUESTION IS DO
TRW FIRE UP LATER THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVE. WV IMAGERY ALONG WITH
5M(A,V) INDCS NO REAL UPR SUPPORT EVIDENT. AFTER LAST NIGHT A BIT
NERVOUS TO KEEP POPS OUT OF FCST THUS HAVE OPTD TO INTRODUCE SLGHT
CAT TNGHT.

BERG

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-080200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED FOR SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS
442 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING KANSAS COUNTIES:

BARBER      CLARK       COMANCHE      EDWARDS    ELLIS      FINNEY
FORD        GRANT       GRAY          HAMILTON   HASKELL    HODGEMAN
KEARNY      KIOWA       LANE          MEADE      MORTON     NESS
PAWNEE      PRATT       RUSH          SCOTT      SEWARD     STAFFORD
STANTON     STEVENS     TREGO

SYNOPSIS:  CONDITIONS HAVE BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER
SOUTHWEST KANSAS DURING THE LAST FEW HOURS.  RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS
OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD RESULT IN
SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED IN A FEW COUNTIES DURING
THE EVENING.

CRAVEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	46 min
Sep 7, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	43 min
Sep 7, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	54 min
Sep 7, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	49 min
Sep 7, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	62 min
Sep 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kearny	67 min
Sep 7, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	42 min
Sep 7, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	56 min
Sep 7, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney	68 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.