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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2006, 6:41 PM CDT for Finney County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 6 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
- May 7, 2006, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Finney County, KS, Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 14 N Deerfield, KS | |
| May 7, 6:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 16 Nw Garden City, KS | |
| May 7, 6:54 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 14 N Deerfield, KS | |
| May 7, 6:54 PM CDT | TORNADO | 10 N Deerfield, KS | TORNADO ON GROUND FOR 3 MINUTES. NARROW TORNADO. |
| May 7, 6:56 PM CDT | TORNADO | 8 Nw Holcomb, KS | |
| May 7, 6:56 PM CDT | TORNADO | 9 Nw Holcomb, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 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 072341 TORDDC KSC055-093-080015- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0005.060507T2341Z-060508T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 641 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 639 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF DEERFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHEASTERN KEARNY 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 3824 10112 3813 10118 3801 10106 3820 10088 $$ UMSCHEID
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 072358 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 656 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006 KSC055-093-080015- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-060508T0015Z/ KEARNY KS-FINNEY KS- 656 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN FINNEY AND NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTIES... AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF DEERFIELD... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. AT 655 PM CDT...A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLCOMB THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. LAT...LON 3824 10112 3813 10118 3801 10106 3820 10088 $$ UMSCHEID
000 WWUS53 KDDC 080018 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 718 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006 KSC055-093-080028- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-060508T0015Z/ KEARNY KS-FINNEY KS- 718 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN FINNEY AND NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 715 PM CDT... THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD MOVED SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3824 10112 3813 10118 3801 10106 3820 10088 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 52 min |
| May 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 43 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.