Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2008, 6:11 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 11 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, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Finney County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:14 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 16 Se Dighton, KS | |
| May 8, 6:20 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 8 N Jetmore, KS | A LARGE FUNNEL CLOUD REACHED HALF WAY TO THE GROUND. |
| May 8, 6:35 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 11 Wnw Jetmore, KS | |
| May 8, 6:38 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 N Jetmore, KS | QUARTER SIZED HAIL COVERED THE GROUND. |
| May 8, 6:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 12 Sse Dighton, KS | NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL COVERED THE GROUND |
| May 8, 6:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 W Jetmore, KS | GOLFBALL AND SLIGHTLY LARGER |
| May 8, 6:51 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Jetmore, KS | COMBINATION OF WINDS AND HAIL BROKE OUT HIS BAY WINDOW AND WINDOWS ON OTHER BUILDINGS. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
| May 8, 6:53 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 E Jetmore, KS | THE CALLER ALSO REPORTED 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS. |
| May 8, 6:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 S Jetmore, KS | |
| May 8, 7:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 E Jetmore, KS | 5 POWER POLES REPORTED SNAPPED |
| May 8, 7:10 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Jetmore, 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 |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 2 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 49 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 082312 TORDDC KSC055-083-101-135-090000- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0006.080508T2311Z-080509T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 611 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. SOUTHEASTERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. SOUTHWESTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 609 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF JETMORE...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF KALVESTA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... JETMORE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHEASTERN FINNEY...SOUTHEASTERN LANE... SOUTHWESTERN NESS AND WESTERN HODGEMAN 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 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3826 9975 3794 9992 3815 10044 3836 10039 TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 284DEG 24KT 3823 10031 $$ 01
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KDDC 082337
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
637 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008
KSC083-135-090000-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-080509T0000Z/
NESS KS-HODGEMAN KS-
637 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR WESTERN
HODGEMAN AND SOUTH CENTRAL NESS COUNTIES...
AT 635 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 11 MILES NORTHWEST
OF JETMORE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3794 9992 3808 10018 3830 10018 3831 10019
3833 10017 3829 9999 3830 9993 3828 9992
3829 9987 3825 9976
TIME...MOT...LOC 2337Z 289DEG 27KT 3814 10004
$$
01The 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, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Scott | 48 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, 6:15 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.