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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 31, 2007Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2007, 8:21 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 2 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: May 31, 2007, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rush County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:20 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
May 31, 8:25 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 Ne Hargrave, KS	RELAYED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
May 31, 8:30 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Liebenthal, KS

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
May 31, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1853 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 010131 RRA
TORDDC
KSC165-010215-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0072.070601T0121Z-070601T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
821 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 815 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF HARGRAVE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HARGRAVE...
  LA CROSSE...
  RUSH CENTER...
  BISON...
  TIMKEN...
  OTIS...
  SHAFFER...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF RUSH COUNTY.

  AT 825 PM THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR HARGRAVE. 

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 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3867 9938 3857 9948 3835 9922 3838 9905
      3862 9905

$$

FINCH

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 010151
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
850 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007

KSC165-010215-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0072.000000T0000Z-070601T0215Z/
RUSH KS-
850 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR EAST 
EASTERN RUSH COUNTY...

AT 846 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR
SHAFFER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHAFFER...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN RUSH COUNTY.

THIS STORM IS CONSIDERED A SUPERCELL STORM. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL THE SIZE
OF BASEBALLS OR LARGER AND VERY DANGEROUS STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WILL ALSO BE 
LIKELY NEAR THE TORNADIC PORTION OF THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3864 9926 3848 9924 3844 9919 3838 9905
      3863 9906

$$

FINCH

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 010200
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
900 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007

KSC165-010210-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0072.000000T0000Z-070601T0215Z/
RUSH KS-
900 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL RUSH COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3864 9926 3848 9924 3844 9919 3838 9905
      3863 9906

$$

FINCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	45 min
May 31, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	50 min
May 31, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	44 min
May 31, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	12 min
May 31, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	61 min
May 31, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	53 min
May 31, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	57 min
May 31, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Rush	54 min
May 31, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	64 min
Jun 1, 12:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	23 min
Jun 1, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	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.