Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 2007, 8:26 PM CST for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Feb 23, 2007, 8:26 PM CST (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2007, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 8:26 PM CST | HAIL 0.75 | Liberal, KS | |
| Feb 23, 8:30 PM CST | HAIL 0.88 | Liberal, KS | |
| Feb 23, 8:40 PM CST | HAIL 0.75 | Liberal, KS | |
| Feb 23, 9:00 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 3 Sw Kismet, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 3:11 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 586 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 240229 SVRDDC KSC175-240315- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0002.070224T0226Z-070224T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 826 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 915 PM CST * AT 823 PM CST...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT RELAYED A REPORT OF DIME SIZE HAIL IN THE SOUTH PART OF LIBERAL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LIBERAL... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIBERAL AND WILL MOVE OVER SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF LIBERAL THROUGH 915 PM CST. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY... LIBERAL... HAYNE... KISMET... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA UNTIL 6 AM CST. LAT...LON 3700 10097 3701 10064 3730 10064 3725 10086 $$ UMSCHEID
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240249 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 848 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 KSC175-240315- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070224T0315Z/ SEWARD KS- 848 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CST FOR SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY... AT 843 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HAYNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY... HAYNE... KISMET... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 3700 10097 3701 10064 3730 10064 3725 10086 $$ BIELINSKI
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240311 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 911 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 KSC175-240321- /O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070224T0315Z/ SEWARD KS- 911 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY EXPIRES AT 915 PM CST... * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY... KISMET... THE STORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3700 10097 3701 10064 3730 10064 3725 10086 $$ BIELINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 43 min |
| Feb 23, 9:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 42 min |
| Feb 23, 9:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 23 min |
| Feb 23, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 51 min |
| Feb 23, 10:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 29 min |
| Feb 23, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 47 min |
| Feb 23, 10:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 32 min |
| Feb 23, 10:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 38 min |
| Feb 23, 11:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 12:05 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 40 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.