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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 28, 2007Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2007, 8:26 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
Mar 28, 2007, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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.

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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 290126
TORDDC
KSC119-290200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0009.070329T0126Z-070329T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
826 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A CONFIRMED TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL BEAVER COUNTY...OR
  17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ENGLEWOOD...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.


* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN MEADE 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 MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3698 10031 3697 10013 3723 10008 3727 10032

$$

UMSCHEID
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS53 KDDC 290140
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
839 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007

KSC119-290200-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070329T0200Z/
MEADE KS-
839 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY...

AT 835 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE STRONG ROTATION WAS 
LOCATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL BEAVER COUNTY...OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

THIS WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN MEADE 
COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3698 10031 3697 10013 3723 10008 3727 10032

$$

LACY
000 
WWUS53 KDDC 290146
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
846 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007

KSC119-290200-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070329T0200Z/
MEADE KS-
846 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY...

AT 843 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY...OR 13 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

THIS WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN MEADE 
COUNTY.

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU 
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3698 10031 3697 10013 3723 10008 3727 10032

$$

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, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray33 min
Mar 28, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.