Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Feb 23, 2007, 10:31 PM CST for Ford County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 23, 2007, 10:31 PM CST (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2007, 11:03 PM CST
- In force
- 32 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), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:32 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.
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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 22 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 240432 TORDDC KSC057-069-240515- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0003.070224T0431Z-070224T0515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1031 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. EXTREME EAST CENTRAL GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1115 PM CST * AT 1028 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. AT 1030 PM CST THE TORNADIC CIRCULATION WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF HOWELL...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ENSIGN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN GRAY COUNTY... HOWELL... 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 AND DOES INCLUDE DODGE CITY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3759 10023 3758 10015 3790 9986 3791 10025 $$ UMSCHEID
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240449 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1047 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 KSC069-240457- /O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070224T0515Z/ GRAY KS- 1047 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL GRAY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3769 10015 3764 10005 3790 9986 3791 10021 $$ KSC057-240515- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070224T0515Z/ FORD KS- 1047 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CST FOR NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY... AT 1044 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DODGE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY... DODGE CITY... THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER 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 3769 10015 3764 10005 3790 9986 3791 10021 $$ BIELINSKI
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240503 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1103 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 KSC057-240513- /O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070224T0515Z/ FORD KS- 1103 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE WARNED STORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3769 10015 3764 10005 3790 9986 3791 10021 $$ 18
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, 10:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 29 min |
| Feb 23, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.