Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 21, 1994, 12:53 AM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 21, 1994, 12:53 AM CDT (05:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 21, 1994, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 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 05:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 Oct 20, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
920 PM CDT THU OCT 20 1994
ARIZONA VORT MAX APPRS WILL CAUSE SOME WX TO SE SCTNS. INITIAL 00Z
ANALYSIS INDCTS VORT MAX UNDERDONE BY 20M BY ALL MODELS...ALSO CREATING
CLDS/PRECIP IN NC NEW MEX. DPR SFC LOW IN W TEX BY 2MB ALSO RFLCTS STRGR
VORT MAX. SE WNDS OVR EAST 2/3 CWA ADVECTG LL MSTR...DDC SFC DEWPOINT
RNNG 9 DEGREES HIGHER THAN FWC MDL W MID 50S JUST UPSTRM AT P28.
APPRS HV MSTR AND UVV TO CREATE RW-/TRW- IN TX PNHNDLE AND WEST OKLA TNGHT
AND BLV SOME PRECIP WILL AFFECT PARTS SE CWA AFTER MIDNIGHT...TX PNDLE OBS
CONFIRM PRECIP DVLPG ATTM. SCENARIO ALSO REASON FOR HIGHER
LOWS TNGHT. WAY THGS DVLPG PSSBLE RMNG NW CWA MAY SEE SOME WX
BUT WILL HOLD OFF FOR NOW. WNDS SHLD SWITCH TO NW TMRW AFTER
PASSAGE OF VORT MAX W CLRG SKIES TO SE CWA.
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Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 26 min |
| Oct 21, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 37 min |
| Oct 21, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 28 min |
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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.