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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 1994Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1994, 10:35 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1994, 10:35 PM MDT (04:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1994, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 401 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
401 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 9:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton66 min
Jun 9, 10:24 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton36 min
Jun 9, 11:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny, Stanton22 min
Jun 9, 11:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant58 min
Jun 9, 11:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward, Stevens48 min
Jun 10, 12:04 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton26 min
Jun 10, 12:29 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton61 min
Jun 10, 12:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward29 min
Jun 10, 1:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens14 min

Nearby

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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.