Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2007, 9:09 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
- Apr 23, 2007, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2007, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 240209 TORDDC KSC097-240245- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0021.070424T0209Z-070424T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 909 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 905 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKE COLDWATER...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. THIS WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE MULLINVILLE OR GREENSBURG. 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 3739 9950 3738 9935 3754 9926 3752 9948 $$ UMSCHEID
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240224 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 924 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 KSC097-240245- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070424T0245Z/ KIOWA KS- 924 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY... AT 922 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF MULLINVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3739 9950 3738 9935 3754 9926 3752 9948 $$ UMSCHEID
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240244 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 941 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 KSC097-240251- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070424T0245Z/ KIOWA KS- 941 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 945 PM CDT... THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THE STORM WAS WEAKENING AS IT WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE MULLINVILLE AREA AND THERE HAVE BEEN NO RECENT REPORTS OF A TORNADO OR TORNADIC ROTATION. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A BRIEF WEAK TORNADO COULD STILL OCCUR OVER CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...MAINLY BETWEEN MULLINVILLE AND GREENSBURG... THROUGH 10 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3739 9950 3738 9935 3754 9926 3752 9948 $$ 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, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 37 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 24, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 57 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.