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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 28, 2007Ford County, Kansas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 28, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2811 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray39 min
Mar 28, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade23 min
Mar 28, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade34 min
Mar 28, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord45 min
Mar 28, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray28 min
Mar 28, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens33 min
Mar 28, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord25 min
Mar 28, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane23 min
Mar 28, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray33 min
Mar 28, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade34 min
Mar 28, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord, Gray, Hodgeman25 min
Mar 28, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHodgeman31 min
Mar 28, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade34 min
Mar 28, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness49 min
Mar 28, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess30 min
Mar 28, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPawnee23 min
Mar 28, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego49 min
Mar 28, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton41 min
Mar 29, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade47 min
Mar 29, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark41 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.