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Tornado Warning 74, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2008, 6:09 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kiowa County, KS, Pratt 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 262310 TORDDC KSC097-151-262345- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0074.080526T2309Z-080526T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 609 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. WEST CENTRAL PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WELLSFORD...MOVING EAST AT 17 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WELLSFORD... CULLISON... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN KIOWA AND WESTERN PRATT COUNTIES. THIS STORM IS CONSIDERED A SUPERCELL STORM. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALL 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. 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 KIOWA AND PRATT COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3776 9891 3758 9867 3752 9904 3758 9912 TIME...MOT...LOC 2309Z 248DEG 15KT 3760 9900 $$ RITTERLING
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, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 31 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.