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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 25, 1995Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1995, 6:38 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
52 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 23:40 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, 11.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 223 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 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 252341
TORDDC
KSC097-057-260030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
638 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING 2 MILES EAST OF
BUCKLIN MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL PASS ALONG AND
JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 54 TOWARD MULLINGVILLE BY 650 PM CDT.
 
GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THIS STORM APPROACHES YOU.
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET IN~TO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
BELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt44 min
Jul 25, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee50 min
Jul 25, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Kiowa44 min
Jul 25, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord29 min
Jul 25, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt35 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.