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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Oct 26, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2006, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 5:36 PM CDT | TORNADO | 17 E Minneola, KS | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN. |
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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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 262201 TORDDC KSC025-262245- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0029.061026T2200Z-061026T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 500 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 456 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINNEOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY... MINNEOLA... CLARK STATE LAKE... 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3735 10009 3735 9973 3746 9956 3747 10011 $$ LACY
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 262222 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 522 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006 KSC025-262245- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-061026T2245Z/ CLARK KS- 522 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY... AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CLARK STATE LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY... CLARK STATE LAKE... THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3735 10009 3735 9973 3746 9956 3747 10011 $$ 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, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 43 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.