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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2007, 9:52 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2007, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 290252 TORDDC KSC145-290315- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0016.070329T0252Z-070329T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 952 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 949 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF BURDETT...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAY...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BURDETT... ROZEL... ASH VALLEY... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE 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. LAT...LON 3808 9955 3810 9938 3834 9916 3833 9957 $$ 18
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 290301 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1001 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 KSC145-290315- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-070329T0315Z/ PAWNEE KS- 1001 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY... AT 957 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF BURDETT...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BURDETT... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3808 9955 3810 9938 3834 9916 3833 9957 $$ LACY
000 WWUS53 KDDC 290312 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1012 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 KSC145-290320- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-070329T0315Z/ PAWNEE KS- 1012 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1015 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 3808 9955 3810 9938 3834 9916 3833 9957 $$ 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, 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, 9:56 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.