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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 25, 2006Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2006, 7:19 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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
Aug 25, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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: 2726 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 9.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 260020
TORDDC
KSC185-260045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0013.060826T0019Z-060826T0045Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 716 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES
  NORTH OF HUDSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY...
  HUDSON...

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 3824 9869 3808 9872 3801 9848 3824 9849

$$

UMSCHEID

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 260053
SVSDDC

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

KSC185-260103-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060826T0045Z/
STAFFORD KS-
753 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY HAS 
EXPIRED...

THE WARNED STORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT TO LIFE OR
PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3824 9869 3808 9872 3801 9848 3824 9849

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	43 min
Aug 25, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	37 min
Aug 25, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	50 min
Aug 25, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	43 min
Aug 25, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	36 min
Aug 25, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	29 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.