Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2007, 8:12 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 28, 2007, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2007, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 8:25 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 N Ensign, KS | LARGE TORNADO ON THE GROUND |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 2811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 290113 TORDDC KSC069-290145- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0008.070329T0112Z-070329T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 812 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ENSIGN... MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ENSIGN... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN GRAY 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 MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE AND EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR GRAY COUNTY. LAT...LON 3763 10032 3761 10022 3781 10022 3786 10028 $$ 18
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 290126 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 824 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 KSC069-290145- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070329T0145Z/ GRAY KS- 824 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL GRAY COUNTY... AT 822 PM CDT...SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF ENSIGN...OR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOWELL...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ENSIGN... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN GRAY COUNTY. LARGE TORNADO ON THE GROUND 6 MILES NORTH OF ENSIGN. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3763 10032 3761 10022 3781 10022 3786 10028 $$ LACY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 41 min |
| Mar 29, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 41 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.