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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 26, 2006Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2006, 5:55 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 2006, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 262255
TORDDC
KSC119-262345-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0034.061026T2255Z-061026T2345Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MISSLER...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF PLAINS CITY...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY...
  MISSLER...

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 3747 10022 3747 10064 3727 10063 3733 10027

$$

LACY

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 262323
SVSDDC

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

KSC119-262345-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-061026T2345Z/
MEADE KS-
623 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY...

AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MISSLER...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY...
  MISSLER...

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 3747 10022 3747 10064 3727 10063 3733 10027

$$

RITTERLING

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 262343
SVSDDC

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

KSC119-262353-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-061026T2345Z/
MEADE KS-
643 PM CDT THU OCT 26 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 645
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 3747 10022 3747 10064 3727 10063 3733 10027

$$

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, 5:00 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, 5:58 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.