Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1994, 4:13 AM CST for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 1994, 4:13 AM CST (10:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 1994, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 261016 RRA SVRDDC KSC097-261045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 413 AM CST WED JAN 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY AT 415 AM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBURG AND MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 54 BETWEEN MULLINVILLE AND GREENSBURG BY 445 AM CST. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING A LOT OF LARGE AND DAMAGING HAIL. YOU SHOULD STAY IN REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL IT PASSES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JOHNSON
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, Jan 26, 3:00 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-260400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 300 AM CST WED JAN 26 1994 ...ROADS ARE ICY FROM FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW ARE ON THE WAY... A MIXED BAG OF WINTER WEATHER HAD THE REGION IN ITS GRIP EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WILL LIKELY NOT LET UP UNTIL LATER TONIGHT. FREEZING RAIN AND FREEZING DRIZZLE HAD ICED ROADS AND SIDEWALKS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY AREA. THE FREEZING PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY NORTH OF AN ASHLAND...GREENSBURG AND PRATT LINE. ...A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT FROM ELKHART...LIBERAL...MEADE...DODGE CITY...KINSLEY AND ST JOHN NORTH... SNOW MAY DEVELOP AND COLLECT ON TOP OF THE ICE BY LATE WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH BEST CHANCES FOR ACCUMULATION NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. . DRIVERS ARE ADVISED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION ON ICY ROADS WEDNESDAY MORNING AND TRAVELERS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DANGEROUS STORM ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jan 26, 3:02 AM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-260400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 300 AM CST WED JAN 26 1994 ...ROADS ARE ICY FROM FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW ARE ON THE WAY... A MIXED BAG OF WINTER WEATHER HAD THE REGION IN ITS GRIP EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WILL LIKELY NOT LET UP UNTIL LATER TONIGHT. FREEZING RAIN AND FREEZING DRIZZLE HAD ICED ROADS AND SIDEWALKS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY AREA. THE FREEZING PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY NORTH OF AN ASHLAND...GREENSBURG AND PRATT LINE. ...A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT FROM ELKHART...LIBERAL...MEADE...DODGE CITY...KINSLEY AND ST JOHN NORTH... SNOW MAY DEVELOP AND COLLECT ON TOP OF THE ICE BY LATE WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH BEST CHANCES FOR ACCUMULATION NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. . DRIVERS ARE ADVISED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION ON ICY ROADS WEDNESDAY MORNING0 AND TRAVELERS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DANGEROUS STORM ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 3:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 28 min |
| Jan 26, 3:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 31 min |
| Jan 26, 3:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 21 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.