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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 18, 1997Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 1997, 9:23 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 1997, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 1997, 9:55 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 1997-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1058 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 00:00Z on 1997-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 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
1058 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 190223 RRA
TORDDC
KSC007-190255-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
923 PM CDT MON AUG 18 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 955 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BARBER STATE LAKE          BY 925 PM CDT
  MEDICINE LODGE             BY 925 PM CDT
  SHARON                     BY 940 PM CDT

* AT 920 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

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

BURKE/MCAVOY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade, Seward45 min
Aug 18, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny46 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

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.