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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 9, 1994Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1994, 5:59 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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: Apr 9, 1994, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 1994, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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
Apr 9, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Greensburg, KS	Tornado touched down briefly over open farm land. This tornado was probably spawned from the same storm which tracked across Seward, Meade, and Clark Counties.

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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 092300
TORDDC
KSC097-092330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
559 PM CDT SAT APR 9 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...KIOWA COUNTY
 
AT 558 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MULLINVILLE OR 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBURG.  THE TORNADO WAS MOVING
EAST/NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS INTO SOUTHWEST KIOWA
COUNTY BY 610 PM.  THE TORNADO SHOULD APPROACH HIGHWAY 183 SOUTH OF
GREENSBURG BY 630 PM.
 
DAMAGING HAIL AND HIGH WIND ARE ALSO LIKELY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO
TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A
TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
 
HUTTON/CRAVEN

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, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	26 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, 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

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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.