Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1994, 4:17 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1994, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 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 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 312118 RRA SVRDDC KSC055-312200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 417 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY AT 416 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 83...15 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY BY 435 PM CDT. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD P.REPARE 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. BERG
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 31, 11:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 1994 KSZ061>063-074>076-084>086-010000- THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN KANSAS... HAMILTON KEARNY FINNEY STANTON GRANT HASKELL MORTON STEVENS SEWARD A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS THE AREA IS EXPECTED TO FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. A CAP IS MAINTAINING SOME STABILITY ACROSS THE AREA AT THIS TIME BUT DAYTIME HEATING IS EXPECTED TO SOFTEN THIS FEATURE. INCREASING LOW LEVEL FLOW FROM THE SOUTHEAST AND EAST IS LIKELY TO MAKE ANY THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT APPROACH OR BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WIDESPREAD AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO ANTICIPATED TO BLOSSOM TONIGHT ACROSS THE REGION. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY AFTER 2 PM CDT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF KANSAS. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS SHOULD MAKE PLANS FOR SPOTTER ACTIVATION AND MAINTAIN A VIGIL FOR LATER STATEMENTS ABOUT THIS AFTERNOON'S WEATHER SITUATION. KSZ030-031-043>046-064>066-077>081-087>090-010000- THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN KANSAS... TREGO ELLIS SCOTT LANE NESS RUSH HODGEMAN PAWNEE GRAY FORD EDWARDS KIOWA STAFFORD PRATT MEADE CLARK COMANCHE BARBER A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS THE AREA IS EXPECTED TO FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD INTO SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS OVERNIGHT AND INCREASE IN COVERAGE. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS ARE URGED TO MAINTAIN A CLOSE WATCH ON TODAY'S WEATHER SITUATION AND LATER STATEMENT ISSUANCES. RICKS
Special weather statement, May 31, 11:04 AM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 1994 KSZ061>063-074>076-084>086-010000- THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN KANSAS... HAMILTON KEARNY FINNEY STANTON GRANT HASKELL MORTON STEVENS SEWARD A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS THE AREA IS EXPECTED TO FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. A CAP IS MAINTAINING SOME STABILITY ACROSS THE AREA AT THIS TIME BUT DAYTIME HEATING IS EXPECTED TO SOFTEN THIS FEATURE. INCREASING LOW LEVEL FLOW FROM THE SOUTHEAST AND EAST IS LIKELY TO MAKE ANY THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT APPROACH OR BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WIDESPREAD AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO ANTICIPATED TO BLOSSOM TONIGHT ACROSS THE REGION. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY AFTER 2 PM CDT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF KANSAS. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS SHOULD MAKE PLANS FOR SPOTTER ACTIVATION AND MAINTAIN A VIGIL FOR LATER STATEMENTS ABOUT THIS AFTERNOON'S WEATHER SITUATION. KSZ030-031-043>046-064>066-077>081-087>090-010000- THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN KANSAS... TREGO ELLIS SCOTT LANE NESS RUSH HODGEMAN PAWNEE GRAY FORD EDWARDS KIOWA STAFFORD PRATT MEADE CLARK COMANCHE BARBER A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS THE AREA IS EXPECTED TO FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD INTO SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS OVERNIGHT AND INCREASE IN COVERAGE. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS ARE URGED TO MAINTAIN A CLOSE WATCH ON TODAY'S WEATHER SITUATION AND LATER STATEMENT ISSUANCES. RICKS
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:42 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ062-063-075-312145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 342 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST-CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 335 PM CDT...DODGE CITY RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ULYSSES TO 20 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN OR 28 MILES NORTH OF ULYSSES. MOVEMENT WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THESE STORMS ARE ORIGINATING FROM WELL ALOFT AND STRONG DOWNBURST GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE QUITE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE LAKIN AREA...AS WELL AS THE REMAINDER OF WEST KANSAS...ARE URGED TO CLOSELY MONITOR THIS AFTERNOON'S WEATHER SITUATION. SOME WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE... MAKE A GAME PLAN NOW...DECIDING WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF A WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE STRONGLY SUGGESTED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED FOR SOME OF THE STORMIER AREAS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED ROUTINELY TO HELP IN YOUR PLANNING. RICKS
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:42 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ062-063-075-312145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 342 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST-CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 335 PM CDT...DODGE CITY RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ULYSSES TO 20 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN OR 28 MILES NORTH OF ULYSSES. MOVEMENT WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THESE STORMS ARE ORIGINATING FROM WELL ALOFT AND STRONG DOWNBURST GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE QUITE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE LAKIN AREA...AS WELL AS THE REMAINDER OF WEST KANSAS...ARE URGED TO CLOSELY MONITOR THIS AFTERNOON'S WEATHER SITUATION. SOME WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE... MAKE A GAME PLAN NOW...DECIDING WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF A WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE STRONGLY SUGGESTED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED FOR SOME OF THE STORMIER AREAS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED ROUTINELY TO HELP IN YOUR PLANNING. RICKS
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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.