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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 2000, 4:31 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2000, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ford, 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 18 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 252132 TORDDC KSC057-252200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 431 PM CDT WED OCT 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 431 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF FORD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF SPEARVILLE. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WINDTHORST AT 440 PM CDT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPEARVILLE AT 450 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. LAT...LON 3748 9995 3748 9958 3790 9958 3790 9978 & BURGERT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 51 min |
| Oct 25, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 38 min |
| Oct 25, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 36 min |
| Oct 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 30 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.