Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2008, 4:12 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
- May 8, 2008, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 12 Wsw Scott City, KS | |
| May 8, 4:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Nw Shallow Water, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1243 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 082113 TORDDC KSC171-082200- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0002.080508T2112Z-080508T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 412 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF SHALLOW WATER...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MODOC...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHALLOW WATER... SHALLOW WATER... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...EVACUATE TO A SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3846 10113 3849 10079 3826 10079 3826 10113 TIME...MOT...LOC 2112Z 272DEG 22KT 3836 10111 $$ 01
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 082145 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 444 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 KSC171-082200- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080508T2200Z/ SCOTT KS- 444 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY... AT 440 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH ROTATION NEAR SHALLOW WATER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. ALTHOUGH TORNADO DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE IMMINENT...A TORNADO STILL COULD DEVELOP WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3846 10113 3849 10079 3826 10079 3826 10113 TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 266DEG 15KT 3835 10088 $$ 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:06 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 10 more | 114 min |
| May 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 75 min |
| May 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Scott | 45 min |
| May 8, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 57 min |
| May 8, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 34 min |
| May 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 31 min |
| May 8, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 49 min |
| May 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 45 min |
| May 8, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane | 32 min |
| May 8, 6:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 38 min |
| May 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 50 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.