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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 1, 2006Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 2006, 6:22 PM CST for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 19 min. 3 reports 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: Apr 1, 2006, 6:22 PM CST (00:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2006, 6:41 PM CST
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 1, 6:32 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 60	Pawnee Rock, KS	CAR TRAILER WAS BLOWEN OF HIGHWAY.
Apr 1, 6:32 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 60	Pawnee Rock, KS	CAR TRAILER WAS BLOWN OFF HIGHWAY.
Apr 1, 6:50 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Pawnee Rock, KS	HOUSE COLLAPSED.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 1075 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 020023
TORDDC
KSC145-020100-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0002.060402T0022Z-060402T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
622 PM CST SAT APR 1 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LARNED

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 620 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LARNED...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE        
  INDICATED COUNTY.

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 3827 9920 3815 9912 3831 9878 3840 9889

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 020042
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
641 PM CST SAT APR 1 2006

KSC007-033-020115-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060402T0115Z/
BARBER KS-COMANCHE KS-
641 PM CST SAT APR 1 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR EASTERN
COMANCHE AND WESTERN BARBER COUNTIES...

AT 637 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE STRONGEST ROTATION WAS 
LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUN CITY...OR ABOUT 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF AETNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED CLOUD BASE ROTATION AT 630 PM 6 MILES EAST 
OF BUTTERMILK.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SUN CITY BY 705 PM CST
  LAKE CITY BY 710 PM CST

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.

LAT...LON 3715 9934 3701 9920 3728 9862 3746 9898

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 6:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	49 min
Apr 1, 6:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Stafford	57 min
Apr 1, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	45 min
Apr 1, 7:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	45 min
Apr 1, 7:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	53 min
Apr 1, 7:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	31 min
Apr 1, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	30 min
Apr 1, 8:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	29 min
Apr 1, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	22 min
Apr 2, 3:50 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 12 more	17 hr

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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.