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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 2006Finney County, Kearny County, Kansas

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.

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 7, 6:45 PM CDTHAIL 114 N Deerfield, KS
May 7, 6:50 PM CDTHAIL 0.8816 Nw Garden City, KS
May 7, 6:54 PM CDTHAIL 1.7514 N Deerfield, KS
May 7, 6:54 PM CDTTORNADO10 N Deerfield, KSTORNADO ON GROUND FOR 3 MINUTES. NARROW TORNADO.
May 7, 6:56 PM CDTTORNADO8 Nw Holcomb, KS
May 7, 6:56 PM CDTTORNADO9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2006-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2006-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny52 min
May 7, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott47 min
May 7, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny44 min
May 7, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney43 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.