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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 28, 2007Gray County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 28, 8:25 PM CDTTORNADO3 N Ensign, KSLARGE 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 28, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2811 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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

$$

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray39 min
Mar 28, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade23 min
Mar 28, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade34 min
Mar 28, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord45 min
Mar 28, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray28 min
Mar 28, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens33 min
Mar 28, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord25 min
Mar 28, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane23 min
Mar 28, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord35 min
Mar 28, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade34 min
Mar 28, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord, Gray, Hodgeman25 min
Mar 28, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHodgeman31 min
Mar 28, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade34 min
Mar 28, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness49 min
Mar 28, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess30 min
Mar 28, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPawnee23 min
Mar 28, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego49 min
Mar 28, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton41 min
Mar 29, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade47 min
Mar 29, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark41 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.