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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2007, 6:46 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 17 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 23, 2007, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2007, 7:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Edwards County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 23, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 232347 RRA TORDDC KSC047-240030- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0066.070523T2346Z-070524T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 646 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 642 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CENTERVIEW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CENTERVIEW... LEWIS... BELPRE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EDWARDS 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3778 9946 3774 9929 3798 9904 3799 9936 $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240003 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 703 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 KSC047-240013- /O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0066.000000T0000Z-070524T0030Z/ EDWARDS KS- 703 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EDWARDS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3778 9946 3774 9929 3798 9904 3799 9936 $$ 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, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 33 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 |
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.