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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 2006Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 4 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, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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
May 7, 7:42 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Garden City, KS
May 7, 7:44 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	5 Nnw Garden City, KS
May 7, 7:45 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Garden City, KS	LASTED FOR 20 MINUTES.
May 7, 7:55 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	1 Ne Garden City, 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 632 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 1.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 080001
TORDDC
KSC055-080045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0006.060508T0000Z-060508T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
700 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 656 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 10
  MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLCOMB...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY...
  HOLCOMB...
  GARDEN CITY...

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 58 AND 66.

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED WITH THIS STORM AND IS MOVING IN THE
DIRECTION OF HOLCOMB AND GARDEN CITY

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 3816 10109 3804 10109 3792 10100 3800 10072
      3813 10091

$$

UMSCHEID

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 080017
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
716 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006

KSC055-080045-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-060508T0045Z/
FINNEY KS-
716 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY...

AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THE STRONGEST ROTATION ON RADAR WAS 
LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF HOLCOMB...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HOLCOMB AND GARDEN CITY ARE INCLUDED IN THIS TORNADO WARNING.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 59 AND 66.

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 3816 10109 3804 10109 3792 10100 3800 10072
      3813 10091

$$

UMSCHEID

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 080026
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
723 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006

KSC055-080045-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-060508T0045Z/
FINNEY KS-
723 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY...

AT 722 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHEAST
OF HOLCOMB...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE
WITH THIS STORM AS WELL

GARDEN CITY CONTINUES TO BE IN THE PATH OF THIS SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM...
AND SHOULD BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER BETWEEN 730 AND 745 PM.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 59 AND 66.

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 3816 10109 3804 10109 3792 10100 3800 10072
      3813 10091

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney	49 min
May 7, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	42 min
May 7, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell	45 min
May 7, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell	37 min
May 7, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford, Gray	42 min
May 7, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	43 min
May 7, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	30 min
May 7, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Kiowa, Pratt	47 min
May 8, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	49 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.