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Tornado Warning 81, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 28, 2007Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 2007, 9:01 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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: Sep 28, 2007, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 2007, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2091 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1364 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 10.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 290201
TORDDC
KSC101-290245-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0081.070929T0201Z-070929T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
901 PM CDT FRI SEP 28 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 900 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF SHIELDS...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF HEALY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHIELDS...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN LANE 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.

LAT...LON 3869 10045 3857 10025 3845 10066 3854 10067
TIME...MOT...LOC 0201Z 233DEG 22KT 3855 10061

$$

RITTERLING

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 290229
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
929 PM CDT FRI SEP 28 2007

KSC101-290245-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0081.000000T0000Z-070929T0245Z/
LANE KS-
929 PM CDT FRI SEP 28 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
LANE COUNTY...

AT 926 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3
MILES SOUTH OF SHIELDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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.

LAT...LON 3869 10045 3857 10025 3845 10066 3854 10067
TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 228DEG 15KT 3859 10044

$$

RITTERLING

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 28, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	51 min
Sep 28, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	48 min
Sep 28, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	44 min
Sep 28, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	37 min
Sep 28, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	48 min
Sep 28, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Trego	26 min
Sep 28, 10:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	45 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.