Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 3:58 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1994, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KDDC 052109 RRA SVRDDC KSC165-052130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ...CORRECTED COMMS PBLMS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 358 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY AT 357 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF SHAFFER AND TIMKEN...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF LARNED. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY FROM THE SHAFFER AND TIMKEN AREAS ON SOUTH. PERSONS IN THIS AREA SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...PREFERABLY IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. 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, Jun 5, 11:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-060000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1100 AM CDT SUN JUNE 5 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING KANSAS COUNTIES: BARBER CLARK COMANCHE EDWARDS ELLIS FINNEY FORD GRANT GRAY HAMILTON HASKELL HODGEMAN KEARNY KIOWA LANE MEADE MORTON NESS PAWNEE PRATT RUSH SCOTT SEWARD STAFFORD STANTON STEVENS TREGO SYNOPSIS: A COOL FRONT DRIFTING SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON WILL COUPLE WITH A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS TO GIVE A CHANCE OFR THUNDERSTORMS MOSTLY EAST OF A WAKEENEY...DODGE CITY LINE. A FEW SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED EAST OF THIS LINE BY LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 11:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-060000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1100 AM CDT SUN JUNE 5 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING KANSAS COUNTIES: BARBER CLARK COMANCHE EDWARDS ELLIS FINNEY FORD GRANT GRAY HAMILTON HASKELL HODGEMAN KEARNY KIOWA LANE MEADE MORTON NESS PAWNEE PRATT RUSH SCOTT SEWARD STAFFORD STANTON STEVENS TREGO SYNOPSIS: A COOL FRONT DRIFTING SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON WILL COUPLE WITH A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS TO GIVE A CHANCE OFR THUNDERSTORMS MOSTLY EAST OF A WAKEENEY...DODGE CITY LINE. A FEW SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED EAST OF THIS LINE BY LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 17 min |
| Jun 5, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 53 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.