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Tornado Warning 78, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2008, 1:58 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 5, 2008, 1:58 PM CDT (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Pawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 1 Nw Macksville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 402 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 051858 TORDDC KSC145-185-051930- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0078.080605T1858Z-080605T1930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 158 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF MACKSVILLE...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF HOPEWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MACKSVILLE... DILLWYN... ST. JOHN... RADIUM... HUDSON... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE AND STAFFORD 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 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3819 9895 3812 9857 3783 9892 3787 9902 TIME...MOT...LOC 1858Z 210DEG 35KT 3790 9896 $$ RITTERLING
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 051916 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 216 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 KSC145-185-051930- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0078.000000T0000Z-080605T1930Z/ PAWNEE KS-STAFFORD KS- 216 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR STAFFORD AND SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTIES... AT 214 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH BROAD ROTATION 4 MILES NORTH OF DILLWYN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DILLWYN... RADIUM... RURAL RESIDENCES OF SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE AND STAFFORD COUNTIES. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3819 9895 3812 9857 3783 9892 3787 9902 TIME...MOT...LOC 1916Z 210DEG 35KT 3805 9885 $$ RITTERLING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:00 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 8:48 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 15 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 12:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Morton, Stanton | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 1:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 23 min |
| Jun 5, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 23 min |
| Jun 5, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 20 min |
| Jun 5, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 15 min |
| Jun 5, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Scott | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.