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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2007, 8:25 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 28, 2007, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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 28, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 2811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KDDC 290127
TORDDC
KSC057-290200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0010.070329T0125Z-070329T0200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
825 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
AND STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF ENSIGN...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOWELL...
RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY.
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL FORD
COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3775 10020 3775 10013 3790 10007 3791 10022
3783 10022 3782 10020
$$
18The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 41 min |
| Mar 29, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.