Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2006, 3:37 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
- Oct 26, 2006, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 262038 TORDDC KSC069-262100- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0023.061026T2037Z-061026T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 337 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 333 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONTEZUMA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY... MONTEZUMA... THE HAGGARD ELEV... 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 3748 10048 3748 10025 3773 10025 3763 10051 $$ LACY
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 262049 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 349 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006 KSC069-262100- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-061026T2100Z/ GRAY KS- 349 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY... AT 344 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 2 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MONTEZUMA...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY... MONTEZUMA... THE HAGGARD ELEV... THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. LAT...LON 3748 10048 3748 10025 3773 10025 3763 10051 $$ LACY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 1:25 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 26, 4:16 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 27 hr |
| Oct 26, 10:11 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 12 more | 109 min |
| Oct 26, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 33 min |
| Oct 26, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 min |
| Oct 26, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 43 min |
| Oct 26, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 38 min |
| Oct 26, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 43 min |
| Oct 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 45 min |
| Oct 26, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell | 45 min |
| Oct 26, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 47 min |
| Oct 26, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Kiowa | 51 min |
| Oct 26, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 50 min |
| Oct 26, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 47 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.