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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1994, 5:53 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1994, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1994, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Deerfield, KS | Brief touchdown of a small tornado over open farmland. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 072251 TORDDC KSC093-080000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 553 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...EASTERN KEARNY COUNTY AT 549 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY OR 15 MILES NORTH OF LAKIN. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL STAY OVER OPEN COUNTRY AND REMAIN NORTH OF LAKIN BUT APPROACH HIGHWAY 25 BY 645 PM. TAKE SHELTER NOW! FRANCIS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 7, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 340 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 DISC...18Z ADAP INDCTD MOISTURE HAS INCREASED DRAMTICALLY ACROSS REGION THIS AFTN WITH DEWPOINTS GENERALLY IN THE LOW TO MID 60S. WITH MOISTURE AND SPEED CONVERGENCE EVIDENT BIG QUESTION IS DO TRW FIRE UP LATER THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVE. WV IMAGERY ALONG WITH 5M(A,V) INDCS NO REAL UPR SUPPORT EVIDENT. AFTER LAST NIGHT A BIT NERVOUS TO KEEP POPS OUT OF FCST THUS HAVE OPTD TO INTRODUCE SLGHT CAT TNGHT. BERG FPUS04KBIS .n'
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-080200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED FOR SEVERE WEATHER THREAT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 442 PM CDT WED SEP 7 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: CONDITIONS HAVE BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS DURING THE LAST FEW HOURS. RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD RESULT IN SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED IN A FEW COUNTIES DURING THE EVENING. CRAVEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 43 min |
| Sep 7, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 54 min |
| Sep 7, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 49 min |
| Sep 7, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 42 min |
| Sep 7, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 58 min |
| Sep 7, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 68 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.