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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2006, 4:22 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grant County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 262122 TORDDC KSC067-262200- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0027.061026T2122Z-061026T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 422 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 417 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WEST CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY...OR ABOUT NEAR ULYSSES...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN GRANT 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. AT 420 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE NORTHWEST EDGE OF ULYSSES. LAT...LON 3753 10138 3773 10133 3773 10152 3752 10151 $$ LACY
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KDDC 262147
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
447 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006
KSC067-262200-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-061026T2200Z/
GRANT KS-
447 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY...
AT 443 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY...OR ABOUT NEAR
ULYSSES. THIS TORNADO WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY...
THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3753 10138 3763 10136 3773 10133 3773 10152
3752 10151
$$
RITTERLING000
WWUS53 KDDC 262201
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
501 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006
KSC067-262211-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-061026T2200Z/
GRANT KS-
501 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY EXPIRES AT 500
PM CDT...
THE WARNED STORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT TO LIFE OR
PROPERTY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3753 10138 3763 10136 3773 10133 3773 10152
3752 10151
$$
RITTERLINGThe 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, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 23 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, 4:47 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.