Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2007, 6:36 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 23, 2007, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2007, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 232337 SVRDDC KSC097-240015- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0021.070323T2336Z-070324T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 636 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 633 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULLINVILLE...OR 3 MILES EAST OF BUCKLIN...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MULLINVILLE... GREENSBURG... HAVILAND... RURAL RESIDENCES OF KIOWA COUNTY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO DEVELOP WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. 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 3742 9952 3755 9906 3772 9901 3771 9955 $$ 18
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KDDC 232352
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
652 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007
KSC097-240015-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070324T0015Z/
KIOWA KS-
652 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENSBURG...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
IN ADDITION...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH
THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS NATURES NUMBER ONE
KILLER. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO
BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3771 9955 3739 9950 3739 9906 3755 9906
3772 9901
$$
RITTERLING000
WWUS53 KDDC 240015
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
716 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007
KSC097-240026-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070324T0015Z/
KIOWA KS-
716 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KIOWA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 715 PM
CDT...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT TO
LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL
WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE OVER KIOWA COUNTY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3771 9955 3739 9950 3739 9906 3755 9906
3772 9901
$$
RITTERLINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:30 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Scott, Stanton | 22 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 43 min |
| Mar 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 45 min |
| Mar 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt | 44 min |
| Mar 23, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.