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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 26, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2008, 6:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Pawnee County, KS, Stafford 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 26, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 510 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -425 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1389 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 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 262300 TORDDC KSC145-185-262345- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0073.080526T2300Z-080526T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 600 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. CENTRAL STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF MACKSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 22 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MACKSVILLE... DILLWYN... ST. JOHN... HUDSON... RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL STAFFORD AND SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE 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. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR PAWNEE AND STAFFORD COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3816 9867 3791 9860 3794 9900 3805 9903 TIME...MOT...LOC 2300Z 266DEG 19KT 3801 9895 $$ RITTERLING
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 262329 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 630 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008 KSC007-025-097-262340- /O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0138.000000T0000Z-080527T0000Z/ KIOWA KS-CLARK KS-BARBER KS- 630 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BARBER... SOUTHEASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3734 9944 3733 9903 3701 9901 3702 9952 TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 207DEG 24KT 3708 9924 $$ KSC033-270000- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0138.000000T0000Z-080527T0000Z/ COMANCHE KS- 630 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR COMANCHE COUNTY... AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUTTERMILK... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 27 MPH. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3734 9944 3733 9903 3701 9901 3702 9952 TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 207DEG 24KT 3708 9924 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:33 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, Meade | 75 min |
| May 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 20 min |
| May 25, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 44 min |
| May 25, 7:57 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Trego | 13 hr |
| May 25, 8:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 82 min |
| May 25, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 47 min |
| May 26, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton | 47 min |
| May 26, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Rush | 47 min |
| May 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 40 min |
| May 26, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 52 min |
| May 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 38 min |
| May 26, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 63 min |
| May 26, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 28 min |
| May 26, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 41 min |
| May 26, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 55 min |
| May 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 38 min |
| May 26, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 51 min |
| May 26, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 26, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 36 min |
| May 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 50 min |
| May 26, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 47 min |
| May 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Meade | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 52 min |
| May 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 48 min |
| May 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 48 min |
| May 26, 6:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt | 3 hr |
| May 26, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 38 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.