Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 76, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2008, 6:16 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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 29, 2008, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 6 N Collyer, 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 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KDDC 292316
TORDDC
KSC195-300000-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0076.080529T2316Z-080530T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
616 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 613 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
NORTHEASTERN GOVE COUNTY...OR 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUINTER...MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL RESIDENCES OF EXTREME NORTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY.
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 THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3909 9981 3904 10016 3912 10016 3914 10014
3914 9982 3913 9981
TIME...MOT...LOC 2316Z 257DEG 45KT 3910 10021
$$
UMSCHEID2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KDDC 292329
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
628 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
KSC195-300000-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0076.000000T0000Z-080530T0000Z/
TREGO KS-
628 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR EXTREME
NORTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY...
AT 627 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN
TREGO COUNTY...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF VODA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL RESIDENCES OF EXTREME NORTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3909 9981 3904 10016 3912 10016 3914 10014
3914 9982 3913 9981
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 257DEG 45KT 3913 10002
$$
UMSCHEID000
WWUS53 KDDC 292353
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
653 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
KSC195-300003-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0076.000000T0000Z-080530T0000Z/
TREGO KS-
653 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY EXPIRES AT 700
PM CDT...
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE TORNADO
WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3909 9981 3904 10016 3912 10016 3914 10014
3914 9982 3913 9981
TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 257DEG 38KT 3918 9976
$$
UMSCHEIDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:32 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 18 more | 14 hr |
| May 29, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 52 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.