Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 11:11 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1994, 11:11 PM CDT (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1994, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 3341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 070411 RRA SVRDDC KSC171-070500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1111 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN SCOTT COUNTY AT 1109 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF MODOC...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD REACH SCOTT STATE LAKE AROUND 1140 PM CDT. LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH IS LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM...ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO A REINFORCED BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OFTEN DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNrING. 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 6, 9:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
KSZ043-070330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 925 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY... AT 920 PM CDT...DODGE CITY RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD REACH SCOTT STATE LAKE BY 945 PM. STRONG WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH AND SOME HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. PERSONS IN THE SCOTT STATE LAKE AREA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY...SO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CRAVEN/RICKS
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 9:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
KSZ043-070330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 925 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY... AT 920 PM CDT...DODGE CITY RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD REACH SCOTT STATE LAKE BY 945 PM. STRONG WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH AND SOME HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. PERSONS IN THE SCOTT STATE LAKE AREA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY...SO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CRAVEN/RICKS
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>087-070410- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1007 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MARCHING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL KANSAS TOWARD SCOTT COUNTY... AT 1002 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD REMAIN NORTH OF HAMILTON AND KEARNY COUNTIES THROUGH 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT). IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO MOVE AT ITS CURRENT SPEED...IT SHOULD APPROACH THE SCOTT COUNTY BORDER WEST OF MODOC AROUND 1130 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL SIZED. PERSONS IN SCOTT COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND WEST OF GARDEN CITY THROUGH 100 AM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 100 AM CDT. CRAVEN/RICKS
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>087-070410- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1007 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MARCHING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL KANSAS TOWARD SCOTT COUNTY... AT 1002 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD REMAIN NORTH OF HAMILTON AND KEARNY COUNTIES THROUGH 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT). IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO MOVE AT ITS CURRENT SPEED...IT SHOULD APPROACH THE SCOTT COUNTY BORDER WEST OF MODOC AROUND 1130 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL SIZED. PERSONS IN SCOTT COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND WEST OF GARDEN CITY THROUGH 100 AM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 100 AM CDT. CRAVEN/RICKS
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:59 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>087-070500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1059 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1052 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY...AND 35 MILES WEST OF SCOTT CITY ALONG HIGHWAY 96. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE FIRST STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO NORTHWEST SCOTT COUNTY WEST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE BY 1110 PM. THE OTHER STORM WILL REMAIN WEST OF THE SCOTT COUNTY LINE THROUGH MIDNIGHT...AND HAS SHOWN SOME SIGNS OF WEAKENING DURING THE LAST HOUR. PERSONS IN SCOTBT COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP RAPIDLY SO BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. CRAVEN/RICKS
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:59 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>087-070500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1059 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1052 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY...AND 35 MILES WEST OF SCOTT CITY ALONG HIGHWAY 96. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE FIRST STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO NORTHWEST SCOTT COUNTY WEST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE BY 1110 PM. THE OTHER STORM WILL REMAIN WEST OF THE SCOTT COUNTY LINE THROUGH MIDNIGHT...AND HAS SHOWN SOME SIGNS OF WEAKENING DURING THE LAST HOUR. PERSONS IN SCOTBT COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP RAPIDLY SO BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. CRAVEN/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.