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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 1997Clark County, Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1997, 5:16 PM CDT for Clark County, Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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
May 29, 1997, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1997, 5:50 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 29, 5:25 PM CDTHail 0.88Minneola, KS
May 29, 5:34 PM CDTHail 0.75Kingsdown, KS

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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 29, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 1997-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 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 1997-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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.

231 
WFUS1 KDDC 292217 RRA
TORDDC
KSC025-057-292250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
516 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS
  SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 550 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BLOOM                      BY 525 PM CDT

* AT 517 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST
  LIKELY AREA FOR A TORNADO 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF BLOOM MOVING SOUTH AT
  10 MPH.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

SEARCY/REITER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton46 min
May 29, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray35 min
May 29, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman49 min
May 29, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord45 min
May 29, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant61 min
May 29, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord49 min
May 29, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord46 min
May 29, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton33 min
May 29, 4:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord2 hr
May 29, 4:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord113 min
May 29, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton48 min
May 29, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord48 min
May 29, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton46 min
May 29, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark63 min
May 29, 6:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCClark3 hr
May 29, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche48 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.