Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 9:14 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1994, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1994, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 3089 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KDDC 060214 RRA SVRDDC KSC007-060300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 914 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL BARBER COUNTY WILL BE REPLACED BY A NEW WARNING FOR SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY... AT 912 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF HARDTNER...OR 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE. THE STORM HAD ACCELERATED AND WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IT SHOULD REACH HARDTNER BY 940 PM. LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH REMAINS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. PERSONS IN HARDTNER SHOULD MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. CRAVEN/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, Jun 5, 5:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ065-066-079>081-089-090-052345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 543 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 537 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF PROTECTION...25 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBURG. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE TRYING TO FORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF LARNED...4 MILES NORTHEAST OF BELPRE...AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LARNED NEAR SEWARD. THE DEVELOPING STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS INCLUDING STAFFORD COUNTY. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE RAPID FORMATION OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 800 PM. THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...SO BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ065-066-079>081-089-090-052345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 543 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 537 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF PROTECTION...25 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBURG. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE TRYING TO FORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF LARNED...4 MILES NORTHEAST OF BELPRE...AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LARNED NEAR SEWARD. THE DEVELOPING STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS INCLUDING STAFFORD COUNTY. CONDI&TIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE RAPID FORMATION OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 800 PM. THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...SO BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
KSZ066-078-081-060125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 723 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 718 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL WAS 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRATT...JUST SOUTH OF MACKSVILLE AT HIGHWAY 50. THE STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH AND SHOULD REMAIN OVER OPEN FARM COUNTRY NORTH OF BYERS THROUGH 740 PM. MEANWHILE...STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN KIOWA COUNTY WERE HEADING WEST INTO BUCKLIN AND FORD IN SOUTHEAST FORD COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY NEAR CENTERVIEW...BUT MOVEMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERIODS OF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL CONTINUE WITH THESE STORMS. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
KSZ066-078-081-060125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 723 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 718 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL WAS 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRATT...JUST SOUTH OF MACKSVILLE AT HIGHWAY 50. THE STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH AND SHOULD REMAIN OVER OPEN FARM COUNTRY NORTH OF BYERS THROUGH 740 PM. MEANWHILE...STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN KIOWA COUNTY WERE HEADING WEST INTO BUCKLIN AND FORD IN SOUTHEAST FORD COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY NEAR CENTERVIEW. ..BUT MOVEMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. PERIODS OF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL CONTINUE WITH THESE STORMS. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:39 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ065-066-078-079-080-081-087-088-089-090-060245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 839 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO HEAD EAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 930 PM CDT EAST OF A PRATT...GREENSBURG...COLDWATER LINE. PERIODS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN...SOME HAIL...AND FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING WILL OCCUR WITH MOST OF THESE STORMS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS ARE EXPECT IN EASTERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY...AFFECTING THE DEERHEAD...AETNA...AND KIOWA AREAS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE ENDED. FARTHER WEST IN THE ST. JOHN...KINSLEY...AND BUCKLIN AREAS...THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER FOR THE EVENING. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:39 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ065-066-078-079-080-081-087-088-089-090-060245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 839 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO HEAD EAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 930 PM CDT EAST OF A PRATT...GREENSBURG...COLDWATER LINE. PERIODS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN...SOME HAIL...AND FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING WILL OCCUR WITH MOST OF THESE STORMS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS ARE EXPECT IN EASTERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY...AFFECTING THE DEERHEAD...AETNA...AND KIOWA AREAS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE ENDED. FARTHER WEST IN THE ST. JOHN...KINSLEY...AND BUCKLIN AREAS...THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER FOR THE EVENING. CRAVEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 21 min |
| Jun 5, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 30 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.