Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1994, 4:53 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1994, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1994, 5:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 777 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 242154 SVRDDC KSC171-242245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 453 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SCOTT COUNTY AT 450 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF SCOTT CITY DRIFTING TO SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD AFFECT THE SCOTT CITY AND MANNING AREAS BY 5 PM...THEN MOVE TO NEAR GRIGSTON BY 515 PM. THE STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AT LEAST ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. PERSONS IN THE PATH* OF THESE STORMSS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. KRUSE/CRAVEN
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 10:53 AM CDT, 6 hours before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-250000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1050 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING KANSAS COUNTIES: BARBER FINNEY HASKELL MEADE RUSH STEVENS CLARK FORD HODGEMAN MORTON SCOTT TREGO COMANCHE GRANT KEARNY NESS SEWARD EDWARDS GRAY KIOWA PAWNEE STAFFORD ELLIS HAMILTON LANE PRATT STANTON SYNOPSIS: A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. THE FRONT SHOULD RUN FROM NEAR LIBERAL TO PRATT LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WARM AND HUMID AIR AHEAD OF THIS FRONT SHOULD PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS... SOME REACHING SEVERE POTENTIAL WITH LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON SOUTH OF LIBERAL TO PRATT LINE. KRUSE
Special weather statement, May 24, 4:11 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
KSZ043-044-242215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 411 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED... AT 408 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCOTT CITY AND JUST EAST OF SHALLOW WATER OR 7 MILES SOUTH/SOUTHEAST OF SCOTT CITY. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...MARBLE SIZE HAIL...SOME WIND GUSTS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THE STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ACROSS THE EASTERN PART OF SCOTT COUNTY THROUGH 430 PM AND INTO THE GRIGSTON AREA BY 425 PM. IF THEATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.V HUTTON
Special weather statement, May 24, 4:47 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043-044-045-063-064-242245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 446 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL THREATENING SCOTT AND LANE COUNTIES... AT 446 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SCOTT CITY TO DIGHTON AND FROM GOVE AND RUSSELL SPRINGS SOUTH TO THE FINNEY COUNTY LINE NEAR FRIEND. THE ENTIRE CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. STORMS SHOULD REACH DIGHTON BY 455 PM CDT...SHIELDS AND PENDENNIS BY 530 PM CDT. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEALY LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL. REMAIN INDOORS DURING A THUNDERSTORM. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 37 min |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 37 min |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 54 min |
| May 24, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 47 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.