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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 26, 2006Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2006, 4:47 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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: Oct 26, 2006, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 2006, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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
Oct 26, 4:53 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 N Minneola, KS	TWO TORNADOES REPORTED AT SAME TIME ON EACH SIDE OF HWY 283.
Oct 26, 4:55 PM CDT	TORNADO	7 Nw Bloom, KS	LARGE TORNADO WITH MULTIPLE VORTICES. ESTIMATED DEBRIS CLOUD NEARLY A MILE WIDE. CONDENSATION FUNNEL INSIDE DEBRIS LARGE AND WIDE.
Oct 26, 5:03 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 W Bloom, KS	BRIEF TORNADO LASTED ONE MINUTE

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
Oct 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 262148
TORDDC
KSC057-262230-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0028.061026T2147Z-061026T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
447 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 443 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF
  KINGSDOWN...OR ABOUT NEAR MINNEOLA...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY...
  KINGSDOWN...
  BUCKLIN...
  FORD...

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.

THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR THE AREA.

AT 446 PM CDT...NUMEROUS TORNADOES WERE REPORTED ALONG NEAR HIGHWAY 
283 ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3747 10012 3747 9956 3766 9956 3765 10010

$$

LACY

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 262212
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
511 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006

KSC057-262230-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-061026T2230Z/
FORD KS-
511 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
FORD COUNTY...

AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BLOOM...MOVING
NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY...
  BLOOM...
  KINGSDOWN...
  BUCKLIN...
  FORD...

THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE 
INDICATED COUNTY.  DODGE CITY IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING.

AT 503 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 2 MILES WEST OF BLOOM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3747 10012 3746 9983 3747 9956 3766 9956
      3765 10010

$$

RITTERLING

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, 3:37 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, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Grant	38 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

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.