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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 1, 2007Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2007, 12:22 AM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report 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: Jun 1, 2007, 12:22 AM CDT (05:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2007, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 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
Jun 1, 12:45 AM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Kiowa, KS	WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED FROM HARDTNER TO EAST OF KIOWA. ONE TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN IN KIOWA, AND MANY LIMBS THREE TO FOUR INCHES IN DIAMETER WERE BLOWN DOWN. POWER STILL WAS OUT THIS MORNING IN RURAL AREAS AROUND KIOWA. APPROXIMATELY 25 POWER POLES WERE B

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, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 010522
TORDDC
KSC007-010545-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0073.070601T0522Z-070601T0545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1222 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1218 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF
  KIOWA...OR NEAR HARDTNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KIOWA...
  HAZELTON...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN BARBER 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 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3706 9864 3700 9864 3701 9835 3716 9837

$$

KRUSE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 010541
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1241 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007

KSC007-010551-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0073.000000T0000Z-070601T0545Z/
BARBER KS-
1241 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1245
AM CDT...

THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

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

LAT...LON 3706 9864 3700 9864 3701 9835 3716 9837

$$

KRUSE

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, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Rush	39 min
May 31, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	64 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.