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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 7, 1994Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1994, 6:22 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 1994, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 12:00Z on 1994-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1994-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 072321
TORDDC
KSC055-080030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
622 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF DEERFIELD OR 15 MILES WEST OF GARDEN
CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE
HOLCOMB AREA BY 710 PM.
 
SKYWARN SPOTTER RELAYED A REPORT OF POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF
DEERFIELD AT 613 PM CDT.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE @SHELTER NOW!
 
FRANCIS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott46 min
Sep 7, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott43 min
Sep 7, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush54 min
Sep 7, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego49 min
Sep 7, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee62 min
Sep 7, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKearny67 min
Sep 7, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott42 min
Sep 7, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane58 min
Sep 7, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.