Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1994, 5:31 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 1994, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1994, 5:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 491 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 092232 SVRDDC KSC129-092300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 531 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...EASTERN MORTON COUNTY AT 530 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELKHART MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE CROSSING NEAR ROLLA BY 545. PERSONS IN ROLLA SHOULD TAKE SAFE SHELTER NOW!!! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH..8.LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PAB
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, Apr 9, 2:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
KSZ084-092100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 256 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS MORTON COUNTY... AT 254 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF ELKHART. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE ROLLA AREA AROUND 305 PM CDT. AT 250 PM AN OBSERVER REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL AT WILBERTON WITH THIS STORM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SAFE SHELTER NOW!!! A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 8PM. BERG &
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ076-085-086-092115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 309 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS STEVENS COUNTY... AT 307 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF HUGOTON...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELKHART. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER THE HUGOTON AREA AROUND 345 PM CDT. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTINING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 8PM CDT. BERG
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
KSZ030-031-044-074-084-085-086-092130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 334 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WERE SCATTERED ABOUT SOUTHWEST AND WEST-CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 333 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM HAYS TO NEAR DIGHTON. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE SHOWN FROM NEAR HUGOTON...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL TO THE JOHNSON VICINITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED NEAR PENDENNIS AND HUGOTON BY 4PM CDT. MORTON COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL 6 INCHES DEEP ALONG HIGHWAY 56 BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF ELKHART AND ROLLA. THE PUBLIC REPORTED MARBLE SIvZE HAIL 5 MILES NORTH OF DIGHTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND A LARGE PART OF SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS. BERG &
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 3:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
KSZ090-092145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 347 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARDS BARBER COUNTY... AT 345 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPDILY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER NEAR HARDTNER...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE. THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 2 INTO THE HAZELTON AREA BY 415 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD PREPARE FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM CDT. BERG
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 3:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
KSZ090-092145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 347 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARDS BARBER COUNTY... AT 345 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPDILY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER NEAR HARDTNER...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE. THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 2 INTO THE HAZELTON AREA BY 415 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD PREPARE FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM CDT. BERG
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
KSZ078-085-086-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 403 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994 AT 401 PM...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL MOVING EAST/NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM SHOULD CROSS HIGHWAY 83 NEAR THE HIGHWAY 160 INTERSECTION AROUND 420 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH BCONTINUES UNTIL 8 PM FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY INTO THE EVENING HOURS. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 26 min |
| Apr 9, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 39 min |
| Apr 9, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 27 min |
| Apr 9, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 25 min |
| Apr 9, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 24 min |
| Apr 9, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 48 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.