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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 26, 1999Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1999, 8:41 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
Apr 26, 1999, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1999, 9:25 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Barber County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 26, 8:46 PM CDTTornado F0Medicine Lodge Arpt, KS
Apr 26, 9:08 PM CDTHail 0.75Sharon, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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 1999-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 141 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 1999-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1376 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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 270141 RRA
TORDDC
KSC007-270225-

URGENT - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
841 PM CDT MON APR 26 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 925 PM CDT

* AT 837 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF MEDICINE LODGE... MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF EASTERN BARBER COUNTY
  SHARON                      BY 900 PM

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

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt63 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.