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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2005, 9:42 PM CDT for Clark County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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 9, 2005, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2005, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 100242 TORDDC KSC025-119-100315- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0047.050610T0242Z-050610T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 942 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 938 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF ENGLEWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTY... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY... ENGLEWOOD... ACRES... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY. LAT...LON 3714 10034 3700 10034 3701 9988 3727 9988 $$ LACY
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 100254 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 953 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005 KSC025-119-100315- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-050610T0315Z/ MEADE KS-CLARK KS- 953 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEASTERN MEADE AND SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM CDT... AT 951 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH SOME ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENGLEWOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTY... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY... ENGLEWOOD... ACRES... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3714 10034 3700 10034 3701 9988 3727 9988 $$ LACY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 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.