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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 10, 2005Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2005, 4:45 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 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 10, 2005, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 10, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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 102147
TORDDC
KSC195-102200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0012.050410T2145Z-050410T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
445 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 442 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
  REPORTED A TORNADO TWO MILES WEST OF WAKEENEY...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN TREGO COUNTY...
  VODA...

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.

LAT...LON 3871 10014 3872 9986 3912 9984 3910 10015

$$

&

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 102159
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
457 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

KSC195-102207-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-050410T2200Z/
TREGO KS-
457 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN TREGO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM
CDT...

AT 455 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED AND WERE EXITING
THE AREA. THIS STORM NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR 
PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3871 10014 3872 9986 3912 9984 3910 10015

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	35 min
Apr 10, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	48 min
Apr 10, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	53 min
Apr 10, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Trego	37 min
Apr 10, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	66 min
Apr 10, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Trego	67 min
Apr 10, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	66 min
Apr 10, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	39 min
Apr 10, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stafford	45 min
Apr 10, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	49 min
Apr 10, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	29 min
Apr 10, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis	33 min
Apr 10, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stafford	43 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.