Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 76, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2007, 4:37 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
- Jun 13, 2007, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 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), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 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 132136 TORDDC KSC025-132200- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0076.070613T2137Z-070613T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 437 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 500 PM CDT * AT 433 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLARK STATE LAKE... MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... 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 3725 9976 3728 9961 3740 9963 3736 9982 $$ LACY
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 132157 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 457 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2007 KSC025-132207- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0076.000000T0000Z-070613T2200Z/ CLARK KS- 457 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY EXPIRES AT 500 PM CDT... THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3725 9976 3728 9961 3740 9963 3736 9982 $$
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, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 28 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, 4:53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.