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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2008, 9:23 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 37 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
- May 23, 2008, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Protection, 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 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 2314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 14.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 240223 TORDDC KSC007-025-033-097-240300- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0045.080524T0223Z-080524T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 923 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 921 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PROTECTION...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SITKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 29 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PROTECTION... LAKE COLDWATER... WILMORE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF COMANCHE...NORTHWESTERN BARBER...SOUTHEASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES. 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 400 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3745 9952 3744 9894 3700 9919 3700 9973 TIME...MOT...LOC 0223Z 220DEG 25KT 3715 9955 $$ 18
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 240249 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 948 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008 KSC007-025-033-097-240300- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-080524T0300Z/ KIOWA KS-CLARK KS-BARBER KS-COMANCHE KS- 948 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR COMANCHE...EXTREME NORTHWESTERN BARBER...SOUTHEASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES... AT 944 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKE COLDWATER... MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LAKE COLDWATER... WILMORE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF COMANCHE...NORTHWESTERN BARBER...SOUTHEASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3745 9952 3744 9894 3700 9919 3700 9973 TIME...MOT...LOC 0248Z 199DEG 26KT 3731 9940 $$ BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness, Rush, Trego | 45 min |
| May 23, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Ness | 43 min |
| May 23, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 26 min |
| May 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 29 min |
| May 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Trego | 47 min |
| May 23, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Lane, Meade, Scott | 58 min |
| May 23, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 39 min |
| May 23, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 66 min |
| May 23, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 51 min |
| May 23, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 58 min |
| May 23, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 36 min |
| May 23, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 47 min |
| May 23, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Trego | 55 min |
| May 23, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 6 more | 66 min |
| May 23, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 38 min |
| May 23, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 55 min |
| May 23, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 51 min |
| May 23, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 50 min |
| May 23, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 23, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 39 min |
| May 23, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 22 min |
| May 23, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa | 54 min |
| May 23, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 50 min |
| May 23, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 32 min |
| May 23, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 47 min |
| May 23, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 17 min |
| May 23, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 65 min |
| May 23, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 30 min |
| May 23, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 27 min |
| May 23, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 38 min |
| May 24, 3:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 10 hr |
| May 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 3 more | 11 hr |
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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.