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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 25, 2006Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2006, 5:49 PM CDT for Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 25, 2006, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 25, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 1035 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 252250
TORDDC
KSC069-081-252330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0012.060825T2249Z-060825T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
549 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
  EAST CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 547 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF TICE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF SUBLETTE...MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHWESTERN GRAY COUNTY...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN HASKELL COUNTY...
  TICE...

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3769 10088 3755 10089 3746 10065 3768 10065

$$

UMSCHEID

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 252324
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
623 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

KSC069-081-252333-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-060825T2330Z/
GRAY KS-HASKELL KS-
623 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL HASKELL AND EXTREME 
SOUTHWESTERN GRAY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE WARNED STORM HAS EXITED THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE
TORNADO THREAT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3769 10088 3755 10089 3746 10065 3768 10065

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny	52 min
Aug 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	47 min
Aug 25, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	67 min
Aug 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	55 min
Aug 25, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	44 min
Aug 25, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	48 min
Aug 25, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	49 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.