Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Feb 23, 2007, 10:16 PM CST for Ford County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 3 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
- Feb 23, 2007, 10:16 PM CST (04:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2007, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 10:18 PM CST | TORNADO | 7 Nw Fowler, KS | |
| Feb 23, 10:22 PM CST | TORNADO | 6 S Ensign, KS | RELAYED FROM MEDIA. CHASER REPORTED TORNADO ON GROUND FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES. AT 1022 PM IT WAS STARTING TO LIFT. |
| Feb 23, 10:27 PM CST | TORNADO | 11 Sw Dodge City, KS | 3000 GAL FUEL TANK BLOWN OVER 1/2-MILE FROM ORIGIN, WOOD ROOF OFF CATTLE BUILDING WITH 2/4S THROWN IN EVERY DIRECTION, SEVERAL TREES TOPPED OFF, AND 4 TO 5 TELEPHONE POLES SNAPPED OFF NEAR 102 RD AND TILLMAN RD. TIME ESTIMATED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 586 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 240416 TORDDC KSC057-069-240445- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0002.070224T0416Z-070224T0445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1016 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1045 PM CST * AT 1011 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTH OF ENSIGN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF FOWLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY... ENSIGN... THIS PARTICULAR WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE DODGE CITY 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. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR THE AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3747 10032 3747 10015 3766 9991 3773 10025 $$ UMSCHEID
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240425 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1023 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 KSC057-069-240445- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070224T0445Z/ GRAY KS-FORD KS- 1023 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CST FOR SOUTHWESTERN FORD AND SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTIES... AT 1018 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND AROUND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF FOWLER. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY... ENSIGN... THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3752 10030 3748 10018 3766 9991 3773 10025 $$ BIELINSKI
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240444 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1042 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 KSC057-069-240452- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070224T0445Z/ GRAY KS-FORD KS- 1042 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN FORD AND SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 1045 PM CST... * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY... ENSIGN... A TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN FORD AND EXTREME EAST CENTRAL GRAY COUNTIES HAVE REPLACED THIS WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3752 10030 3748 10018 3766 9991 3773 10025 $$ BIELINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 43 min |
| Feb 23, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 min |
| Feb 23, 9:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 42 min |
| Feb 23, 9:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 23 min |
| Feb 23, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 51 min |
| Feb 23, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 47 min |
| Feb 23, 10:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 32 min |
| Feb 23, 10:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 38 min |
| Feb 23, 11:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 12:05 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.