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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 7, 1994Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1994, 8:37 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 1994, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 1994-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1265 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1994-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
1265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
4.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 080136
TORDDC
KSC175-080230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
837 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...SEWARD COUNTY
 
AT 835 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 23 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL
BE OVER OPEN COUNTRY THROUGH 9 PM AND APPROACH LIBERAL BY 915 PM.
 
TAKE SHELTER NOW!
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny58 min
Sep 7, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush26 min
Sep 7, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman62 min
Sep 7, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess41 min
Sep 7, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush32 min
Sep 7, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell51 min
Sep 7, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGrant44 min
Sep 7, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord58 min
Sep 7, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens46 min
Sep 7, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens28 min
Sep 7, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward30 min
Sep 7, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche28 min
Sep 7, 11:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton22 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.