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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2007, 10:12 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- May 22, 2007, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2007, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ellis County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 230312 TORDDC KSC051-230345- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0064.070523T0312Z-070523T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1012 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1007 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF ANTONINO...OR 9 MILES EAST OF CEDAR BLUFF...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ANTONINO... SCHOENCHEN... MUNJOR... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS 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. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW A TORNADO WARNINGS ALSO REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY AND CENTRAL ELLIS COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3880 9959 3870 9956 3870 9917 3887 9922 $$ 18
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 230326 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1025 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 KSC051-230345- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0064.000000T0000Z-070523T0345Z/ ELLIS KS- 1025 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY... AT 1023 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF ANTONINO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ANTONINO... SCHOENCHEN... MUNJOR... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF ELLIS COUNTY. LAT...LON 3880 9959 3870 9956 3870 9917 3887 9922 $$ 18
000 WWUS53 KDDC 230343 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1042 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 KSC051-230352- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0064.000000T0000Z-070523T0345Z/ ELLIS KS- 1042 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1045 PM CDT... THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF ELLIS COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3880 9959 3870 9956 3870 9917 3887 9922 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 46 min |
| May 22, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 49 min |
| May 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 26 min |
| May 22, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 48 min |
| May 22, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 27 min |
| May 22, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 32 min |
| May 22, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 64 min |
| May 22, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 34 min |
| May 22, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 40 min |
| May 22, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 54 min |
| May 22, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 36 min |
| May 22, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 53 min |
| May 22, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 10 min |
| May 22, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 61 min |
| May 23, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 14 min |
| May 23, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 34 min |
| May 23, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 42 min |
| May 23, 2:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 67 min |
| May 23, 2:47 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 18 more | 25 hr |
| May 23, 2:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 64 min |
| May 23, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 33 min |
| May 23, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 37 min |
| May 23, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 33 min |
| May 23, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 79 min |
| May 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 61 min |
| May 23, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 54 min |
| May 23, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 56 min |
| May 23, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 52 min |
| May 23, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 16 min |
| May 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 53 min |
| May 23, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 4 min |
| May 23, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 17 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.