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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2008, 5:29 PM CDT for Ellis County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- May 25, 2008, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Ellis County, KS, Rush County, KS
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 25, 12:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 252229 TORDDC KSC051-165-252315- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0068.080525T2229Z-080525T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 529 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS. NORTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 526 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF LORETTA...MOVING EAST AT 28 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF LIEBENTHAL. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LIEBENTHAL... LORETTA... PFEIFER... VICTORIA... WALKER... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHEASTERN RUSH AND SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTIES. 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 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3903 9903 3864 9902 3857 9936 3870 9945 TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 249DEG 25KT 3867 9921 $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 252251 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 552 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 KSC051-165-252315- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0068.000000T0000Z-080525T2315Z/ ELLIS KS-RUSH KS- 552 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN RUSH AND SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTIES... AT 549 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES EAST OF PFEIFER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 32 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PFEIFER... WALKER... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHEASTERN RUSH AND SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTIES. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3890 9903 3864 9902 3861 9917 3875 9923 TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 245DEG 28KT 3869 9905 $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 49 min |
| May 25, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 62 min |
| May 25, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 51 min |
| May 25, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 39 min |
| May 25, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 46 min |
| May 25, 3:16 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 47 min |
| May 25, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 40 min |
| May 25, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 39 min |
| May 25, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 18 min |
| May 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 45 min |
| May 25, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 50 min |
| May 25, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 39 min |
| May 25, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott, Trego | 62 min |
| May 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 53 min |
| May 25, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 32 min |
| May 25, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 39 min |
| May 25, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 37 min |
| May 25, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 48 min |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 4 hr |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 67 min |
| May 25, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 40 min |
| May 25, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott, Trego | 49 min |
| May 25, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 70 min |
| May 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Rush | 3 hr |
| May 25, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 69 min |
| May 25, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 46 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.