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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 23, 2007Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2007, 7:31 PM CDT for Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 5 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: Apr 23, 2007, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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
Apr 23, 7:43 PM CDT	TORNADO	12 S Sitka, KS
Apr 23, 8:10 PM CDT	TORNADO	12 Ese Ashland, KS
Apr 23, 8:20 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Sw Protection, KS
Apr 23, 8:22 PM CDT	TORNADO	Protection, KS	TORNADO REPORTED BY KWCH TV
Apr 23, 8:24 PM CDT	TORNADO	Protection, KS	OFF DUTY EMPLOYEE FROM NORMAN NWS OFFICE

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
Apr 23, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 23, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 1336 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 9.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 240032
SVRDDC
KSC025-033-240115-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0039.070424T0031Z-070424T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
731 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
  SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 726 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
  GOLF BALL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTH OF SITKA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SITKA...
  PROTECTION...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE
  COUNTIES.

THIS STORM CONTAINS STRONG ROTATION WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH
OF BUFFALO OKLAHOMA.  A TORNADO WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED SOON.

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 3700 9979 3700 9942 3722 9924 3723 9964

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford	21 min
Apr 23, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	12 min
Apr 23, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	37 min
Apr 23, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	39 min
Apr 23, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	33 min
Apr 23, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Comanche	36 min
Apr 23, 9:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa	36 min
Apr 24, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	57 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.