Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 79, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2007, 8:24 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 4 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
- Jun 19, 2007, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2007, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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 19, 8:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 80 | 5 N Hugoton, KS | |
| Jun 19, 8:44 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 N Hugoton, KS | |
| Jun 19, 8:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 Nw Hugoton, KS | HIGH WINDS BLEW ROOF FROM AN OUTBUILDING. |
| Jun 19, 8:51 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 7 Nne Hugoton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 3489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 200123 TORDDC KSC189-200215- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0079.070620T0124Z-070620T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 824 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES NORTH OF HUGOTON...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOSCOW...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HUGOTON... RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL STEVENS COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. 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 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3739 10129 3739 10143 3715 10144 3715 10126 $$ KRUSE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 200145 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 846 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007 KSC189-200215- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0079.000000T0000Z-070620T0215Z/ STEVENS KS- 846 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL STEVENS COUNTY... AT 844 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF HUGOTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3739 10129 3739 10143 3715 10144 3715 10126 $$ KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 44 min |
| Jun 19, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 68 min |
| Jun 19, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 70 min |
| Jun 19, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 39 min |
| Jun 19, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 25 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.