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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2007, 7:38 PM CDT for Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 240039 TORDDC KSC025-033-240115- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0018.070424T0038Z-070424T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 738 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 734 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PROTECTION...OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF SITKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PROTECTION... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTIES. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THIS TORNADO WARNING UPGRADES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT. 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. LAT...LON 3700 9968 3700 9947 3718 9928 3725 9957 $$ UMSCHEID
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240055 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 754 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 KSC025-033-240115- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-070424T0115Z/ CLARK KS-COMANCHE KS- 754 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTIES... AT 751 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PROTECTION...OR 8 MILES SOUTH OF SITKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PROTECTION... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTIES. AT 743 PM CDT A NEWS MEDIA STORM CHASER REPORTED A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH OF SITKA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. BLOWING DUST OR DEBRIS AND SUDDEN WIND CHANGES MAY MEAN A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING OR APPROACHING. THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION IS NOW LAT...LON 3700 9968 3700 9947 3718 9928 3725 9957 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 44 min |
| 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, 7:51 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 |
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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.