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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 21, 1994Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 1994, 4:16 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 21, 1994, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 21, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 302 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: 1930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 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 21, 3:30 PM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 3:30 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
330 PM CDT WED SEP 21 1994

CURRENT ANALYSIS...88D AND SATELLITE INDICATE NGM POPS TOO DRY AND APPR
MORE IN LINE WITH ETA.  TRW DVLPMT LIKELY ALONG FRONT WITH SFC HTG BCMG
POST FRNTL RW AS COLD AIR MOVES IN.  SEE PARTIAL CLEARING TMRW BUT XPCT
LOTS OF COLD AIR SC AS COLD AIR MOVES IN.  OTHRWISE TEMPS APPR REASONABLE
WILD CARD IS AMT CLDS AND PRECIP.  LIKE AVN LATER WITH GOOD CHANCE OF
WRAPAROUND MOISTURE ESPECIALLY SINCE TREND IS TO MOVE UPPR LOW SE W EACH
RUN

NICHOLS/HUTTON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 21, 10:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 21, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	27 min
Sep 21, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Pawnee	29 min
Sep 21, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	39 min
Sep 21, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	42 min
Sep 21, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	48 min
Sep 21, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	43 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.