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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 27, 2003Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2003, 6:07 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
Jun 27, 2003, 6:07 PM MDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 2003-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 284 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 2003-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 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
284 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 280007
TORDDC
KSC075-280030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
604 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 604 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ABOUT 
  22 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF NORTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM MDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND
SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3826 10157 3824 10173 3802 10176 3800 10157

$$

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton44 min
Jun 27, 6:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott73 min
Jun 27, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott45 min
Jun 27, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton75 min
Jun 27, 7:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott39 min
Jun 27, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott23 min
Jun 27, 8:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott60 min
Jun 27, 8:05 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCScott25 min
Jun 27, 8:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton56 min
Jun 27, 8:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney49 min
Jun 27, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott30 min
Jun 27, 9:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton45 min
Jun 27, 9:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney59 min
Jun 27, 9:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton62 min
Jun 28, 6:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt45 min
Jun 28, 7:01 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt29 min
Jun 28, 7:53 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche52 min
Jun 28, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark41 min
Jun 28, 4:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord41 min
Jun 28, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark49 min
Jun 28, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade42 min
Jun 28, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord44 min
Jun 28, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark46 min
Jun 28, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade59 min
Jun 28, 5:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord62 min
Jun 28, 5:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray58 min
Jun 28, 5:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman56 min
Jun 28, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.