Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 080214 RRA SVRDDC KSC175-080245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 915 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY AT 912 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE STEVENS/SEWARD COUNTY LINE NEAR WOODS...13 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD REACH LIBERAL AROUND 935 MPH. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 70 TO 80 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PERSONS IN LIBERAL SHOULD MOVE INDOO>RS INTO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CRAVEN/RICKS
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, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 3:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 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 FPUS04KBIS .n'
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 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
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 6:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043-044-045-046-061-062-063-064-065-066-074-075-076- 077-078-079-080-081-084-085-086-087-088-089-090-080230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 634 PM CDT (534 PM MDT) WED SEP 7 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT EXCEPT TREGO AND ELLIS COUNTIES... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. SEVERE WEATHER HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN PORTIONS OF THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. FRANCIS
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 8:26 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043-044-045-046-061-062-063-064-065-066-074-075-076- 077-078-079-080-081-084-085-086-087-088-089-090-080230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 825 PM CDT (725 PM MDT) WED SEP 7 1994 AT 820 PM THIS EVENING A BROAD AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THIS AREA STRETCHED FROM ROUGHLY ULYSSES NORTHEAST TO GREAT BEND TO NEAR HUTCHINSON. THE AREA WAS ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE AND WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST TOWARDS LIBERAL...MEADE... AND ASHLAND AT 25 MPH. AND SHOULD REACH THE OKLAHOMA LINE BY 930 PM. THESE STORMS TONIGHT HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SOME TORRENTIAL RAIN AND VERY LARGE HAIL BETWEEN GOLFBALL AND BASEBALL SIZE. ALL PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THE WEATHER AND REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS THAT WOULD AFFECT THEIR PARTICULAR LOCATION. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEEST KANSAS. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 58 min |
| Sep 7, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 26 min |
| Sep 7, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 41 min |
| Sep 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 58 min |
| Sep 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 53 min |
| Sep 7, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 28 min |
| Sep 7, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 28 min |
| Sep 7, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 22 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.