Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1994, 7:59 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1994, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KDDC 290100 RRA SVRDDC KSC055-290145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 759 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY AT 755 PM CDT...DODGE CITY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY ALONG THE KEARNY COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS OPEN FARM LAND OF NORTHWEST FINNEY COUNTY THROUGH 820 PM CDT. THIS STORM WILL BE APPROACHING GARDEN CITY BY 835 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM NEED TO TAKE COVER. 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
KSZ061-062-290020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 618 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR NORTHERN HAMILTON AND NORTHERN KEARNY COUNTIES... AT 612 PM CDT (512 PM MDT) STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED JUST NORTH OF HAMILTON AND KEARNY COUNTIES MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE EXTREME NORTHERN PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES BY 640 PM CDT (540 PM MDT). PERSONS IN HAMILTON AND KEARNY COUNTIES SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AS WARNINGS MAY BECOME NECCESARY SHORTLY. MEANWHILE...THINK OF WHAT YOU WOULD DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. RICKS
Special weather statement, May 28, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
KSZ061-062-290020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 618 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR NORTHERN HAMILTON AND NORTHERN KEARNY COUNTIES... AT 612 PM CDT (512 PM MDT) STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED JUST NORTH OF HAMILTON AND KEARNY COUNTIES MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE EXTREME NORTHERN PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES BY 640 PM CDT (540 PM MDT). PERSONS IN HAMILTON AND KEARNY COUNTIES SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AS WARNINGS MAY BECOME NECCESARY SHORTLY. MEANWHILE...THINK OF WHAT YOU WOULD DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. RICKS
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:25 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
KSZ074-075-290130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 725 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS HEADED TOWARDS ULYSSES... AT 725 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF ULYSSES MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH ULYSSES BY 750 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM OR IF YOU ARE IN ULYSSES...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST ON THIS STORM. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:25 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
KSZ074-075-290130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 725 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS HEADED TOWARDS ULYSSES... AT 725 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF ULYSSES MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH ULYSSES BY 750 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM OR IF YOU ARE IN ULYSSES...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST ON THIS STORM. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:35 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
KSZ043-044-290130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 735 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS SCOTT COUNTY... AT 735 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SCOTT COUNTY INCLUDING THE SCOTT CITY AREA. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD REACH LANE COUNTY AND DIGHTON BY 815 PM CDT. THESE STORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL. STAY INDOORS DURING A THUNDERSTORM. ONCE THE STORMS HAVE MOVED THROUGH THE AREA...THE REST OF THE EVENING SHOULD BE PARTLY CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S BY MIDNIGHT. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:36 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
KSZ043-044-290130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 735 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS SCOTT COUNTY... AT 735 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SCOTT COUNTY INCLUDING THE SCOTT CITY AREA. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD REACH LANE COUNTY AND DIGHTON BY 815 PM CDT. THESE STORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL. STAY INDOORS DURING A THUNDERSTORM. ONCE THE STORMS HAVE MOVED THROUGH THE AREA...THE REST OF THE EVENING SHOULD BE PARTLY CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S BY MIDNIGHT. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 36 min |
| May 28, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 50 min |
| May 28, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 48 min |
| May 28, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 30 min |
| May 28, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 34 min |
| May 28, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 31 min |
| May 28, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 29 min |
| May 28, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 44 min |
| May 28, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 29 min |
| May 28, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 22 min |
| May 28, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.