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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2004, 6:56 PM CDT for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- May 12, 2004, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
398 WFUS53 KDDC 122356 TORDDC KSC007-151-130045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 656 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 653 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF CULLISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER STORM CAPABLE OF A TORNADO WAS 5 MILES NORTH OF LAKE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF COATS AROUND 705 PM CDT CULLISON AROUND 710 PM CDT PRATT AROUND 725 PM CDT IUKA AROUND 740 PM CDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3733 9898 3734 9848 3776 9849 3776 9900 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 35 min |
| May 12, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 53 min |
| May 12, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 48 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.