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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 27, 2003Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2003, 9:05 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

100 
WFUS53 KDDC 280205
TORDDC
KSC171-280230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 905 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SCOTT CITY AT 910 PM CDT
  SHALLOW WATER AT 920 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 3861 10099 3849 10112 3832 10089 3841 10070

$$

KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton	23 min
Jun 27, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	44 min
Jun 27, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	73 min
Jun 27, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	45 min
Jun 27, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	75 min
Jun 27, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	39 min
Jun 27, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	23 min
Jun 27, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	60 min
Jun 27, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	56 min
Jun 27, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	49 min
Jun 27, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	30 min
Jun 27, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	45 min
Jun 27, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	59 min
Jun 27, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	62 min
Jun 28, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	45 min
Jun 28, 8:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	29 min
Jun 28, 8:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	52 min
Jun 28, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	41 min
Jun 28, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	41 min
Jun 28, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	49 min
Jun 28, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	42 min
Jun 28, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	44 min
Jun 28, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	46 min
Jun 28, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	59 min
Jun 28, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	62 min
Jun 28, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	58 min
Jun 28, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	56 min
Jun 28, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	42 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.