Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 75, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2007, 4:02 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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 13, 2007, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2007, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Ashland, KS | NUMEROUS POWER POLES DOWN IN ASHLAND, AS WELL AS EAST AND NORTH OF ASHLAND. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1026 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 132102 TORDDC KSC025-132130- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0075.070613T2102Z-070613T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 402 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 358 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF ASHLAND...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ASHLAND... RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL CLARK 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3709 9980 3713 9970 3727 9970 3721 9990 $$ LACY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.