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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 5, 1994Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 4:32 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 17 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1994, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1994, 4:49 PM CDT
In force
17 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 21:35 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, 9.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1994-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1805 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1994-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 279 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KDDC 052133 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC165-052200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
432 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 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 CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY
 
AT 429 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STATIONARY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
3 MILES SOUTH OF SHAFFER...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF LARNED.
 
THIS STORM SHOULD CONTINUE TO OPEN COUNTRY JUST SOUTH OF TIMKEN AND
SHAFFER WITH LARGE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.  PERSONS IN THE WARNED
AREA SHOULD REMAIN IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS MOVED ON.
 
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, 5 hours 30 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, 5 hours 30 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, 4:27 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
KSZ031-046-065-066-081-090-052230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
427 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL
AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #328 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT AND
INCLUDES STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.  SOME CITIES IN THE
WATCH ARE STAFFORD AND ST. JOHN.

THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS
EXISTS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  PERSONS IN
CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD MONITOR THE LASTEST INFORMATION
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.  BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE
OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:28 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
KSZ031-046-065-066-081-090-052230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
427 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL
AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #328 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT AND
INCLUDES STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.  SOME CITIES IN THE
WATCH ARE STAFFORD AND ST. JOHN.

THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS
EXISTS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  PERSONS IN
CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD MONITOR THE LASTEST INFORMATION
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.  BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE
OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

CRAVEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush32 min
Jun 5, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards34 min
Jun 5, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa31 min
Jun 5, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche50 min
Jun 5, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa53 min

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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.