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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 22, 2008Finney County, Lane County, Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2008, 4:39 PM CDT for Finney County, Lane County, Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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 22, 2008, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2008, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Finney County, KS, Lane County, KS, Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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
May 22, 5:20 PM CDT	HAIL 1	2 S Dighton, KS
May 22, 5:32 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 Wnw Alamota, KS
May 22, 5:33 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	2 E Dighton, 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 22, 1:52 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1191 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -320 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 222139
TORDDC
KSC055-101-171-222230-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0007.080522T2139Z-080522T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
439 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
  LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.
  SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 437 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 26
  MILES SOUTH OF AMY...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING
  NORTH AT 36 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  AMY...
  DIGHTON...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF LANE...NORTHERN FINNEY AND SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT
  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.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR FINNEY COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3857 10069 3860 10050 3848 10033 3801 10065
      3806 10075
TIME...MOT...LOC 2139Z 198DEG 31KT 3810 10066

$$

FINCH

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 222155
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
454 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

KSC055-101-171-222230-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080522T2230Z/
SCOTT KS-LANE KS-FINNEY KS-
454 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL FINNEY...LANE AND SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT COUNTIES...

AT 451 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 20 MILES SOUTH OF AMY...OR
18 MILES EAST OF FRIEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  AMY...
  DIGHTON...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF LANE...NORTHERN FINNEY AND SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT
  COUNTIES.

THIS STORM IS CONSIDERED A SUPERCELL STORM. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL THE SIZE
OF GOLFBALLS OR LARGER AND VERY DANGEROUS STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WILL ALSO
BE LIKELY NEAR THE TORNADIC PORTION OF THIS STORM.

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 THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3857 10069 3860 10050 3848 10033 3801 10065
      3806 10075
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 203DEG 31KT 3820 10057

$$

FINCH

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 222220
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
519 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

KSC055-101-222230-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080522T2230Z/
LANE KS-FINNEY KS-
519 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR EXTREME
NORTHEASTERN FINNEY AND CENTRAL LANE COUNTIES...

AT 514 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 9 MILES SOUTH OF DIGHTON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 36 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DIGHTON...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL LANE AND NORTHEASTERN FINNEY COUNTIES.

THIS STORM IS CONSIDERED A SUPERCELL STORM. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL THE SIZE
OF GOLFBALLS OR LARGER AND VERY DANGEROUS STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WILL 
ALSO BE LIKELY NEAR THE TORNADIC PORTION OF THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3830 10055 3855 10054 3860 10050 3848 10033
      3823 10050
TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 203DEG 31KT 3840 10046

$$

FINCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 8:30 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	DDC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 10 more	23 hr
May 22, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	64 min
May 22, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	49 min
May 22, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	44 min
May 22, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	21 min
May 22, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	40 min
May 22, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	39 min
May 22, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	48 min
May 22, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Lane, Scott	59 min
May 22, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	20 min
May 22, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Trego	43 min
May 22, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	28 min
May 22, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Trego	44 min
May 22, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	14 min
May 22, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	39 min
May 22, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	67 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.