Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2006, 8:50 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2006, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2006, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 9:39 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 5 S Sitka, KS | 5 MILES SOUTH ON HIGHWAY 183 FUNNEL CLOUD OBSERVED FROM 939 TO 950 PM |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 2048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 13.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 160150 TORDDC KSC025-160245- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0016.060916T0150Z-060916T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 850 PM CDT FRI SEP 15 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 846 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ENGLEWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY... ENGLEWOOD... ACRES... ASHLAND... SITKA... 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. LAT...LON 3702 10008 3702 9957 3736 9956 3718 10008 $$ FINCH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 160222 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 920 PM CDT FRI SEP 15 2006 KSC025-160245- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-060916T0245Z/ CLARK KS- 920 PM CDT FRI SEP 15 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY... AT 919 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF ACRES...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY... ACRES... ASHLAND... SITKA... THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3702 10008 3702 9957 3736 9956 3718 10008 $$ 18
000 WWUS53 KDDC 160248 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 948 PM CDT FRI SEP 15 2006 KSC025-160258- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-060916T0245Z/ CLARK KS- 948 PM CDT FRI SEP 15 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY EXPIRES AT 945 PM CDT... THE WARNED STORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3702 10008 3702 9957 3736 9956 3718 10008 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 55 min |
| Sep 15, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 45 min |
| Sep 15, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 53 min |
| Sep 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 44 min |
| Sep 15, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 33 min |
| Sep 15, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 39 min |
| Sep 15, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 49 min |
| Sep 15, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 57 min |
| Sep 15, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 55 min |
| Sep 15, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 34 min |
| Sep 15, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 51 min |
| Sep 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 30 min |
| Sep 15, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 48 min |
| Sep 15, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 49 min |
| Sep 15, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 51 min |
| Sep 15, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 47 min |
| Sep 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 50 min |
| Sep 15, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 44 min |
| Sep 15, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Stafford | 56 min |
| Sep 15, 11:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 52 min |
| Sep 15, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 2:45 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 15 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.