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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 23, 2003Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2003, 4:14 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 2003, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 2003-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 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 
WFUS53 KDDC 232114
TORDDC
KSC097-232200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
414 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 414 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND
  SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF BELVIDERE...OR ABOUT 5
  MILES NORTHWEST OF WILMORE. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

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 3738 9930 3739 9902 3752 9901 3759 9913

&

$$

FINCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 4:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott28 min
Apr 23, 5:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott29 min
Apr 23, 9:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Kiowa41 min
Apr 23, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche50 min
Apr 23, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark36 min

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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.