Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 2007, 9:18 PM CST for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. 2 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, 9:18 PM CST (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2007, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 9:18 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 5 S Plains City, KS | |
| Feb 23, 9:56 PM CST | TORNADO | 8 W Fowler, KS | TORNADO TRAVELED ABOUT 2.5 MILES BEFORE DISSIPATING AT 1006 PM 7.5 MILES NORTHWEST OF FOWLER. DAMAGED SOME TREES. |
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 |
| Feb 23, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 68 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 240318 SVRDDC KSC119-240400- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0003.070224T0318Z-070224T0400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 918 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1000 PM CST * AT 916 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PLAINS CITY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN MEADE COUNTY... PLAINS CITY... MISSLER... FOWLER... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOS 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 3746 10063 3707 10062 3722 10021 3746 10012 $$ UMSCHEID
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240343 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 943 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 KSC119-240400- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070224T0400Z/ MEADE KS- 943 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR MEADE COUNTY... AT 941 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MISSLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN MEADE COUNTY... MISSLER... FOWLER... OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MEADE A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 3746 10063 3707 10062 3722 10021 3746 10012 $$ 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, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 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 |
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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.