Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2007, 8:56 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2007, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 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), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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 290157 TORDDC KSC119-290230- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0013.070329T0156Z-070329T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 856 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 851 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A CONFIRMED TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN MEADE COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 54 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 47 AND 52. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW THIS WARNING EXTENDS AND EXPANDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3708 10035 3704 10013 3735 10009 3735 10029 $$ UMSCHEID
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 290202 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 902 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 KSC119-290230- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070329T0230Z/ MEADE KS- 902 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR EASTERN MEADE COUNTY... AT 859 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY...OR 8 MILES EAST OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THIS WILL AFFECT RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN MEADE COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3708 10035 3704 10013 3735 10009 3735 10029 $$ LACY
000 WWUS53 KDDC 290211 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 912 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 KSC119-290230- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070329T0230Z/ MEADE KS- 912 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR EASTERN MEADE COUNTY... AT 908 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY...OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEADE...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THIS WILL AFFECT RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN MEADE COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. 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. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3708 10035 3704 10013 3735 10009 3735 10029 $$ LACY
000 WWUS53 KDDC 290223 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 924 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 KSC119-290234- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070329T0230Z/ MEADE KS- 924 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN MEADE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 930 PM CDT... THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3708 10035 3704 10013 3735 10009 3735 10029 $$ LACY
The 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, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 35 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, 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 |
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.