Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 81, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2008, 3:24 PM CDT for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 min. 2 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
- Jun 5, 2008, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 3:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 12 N Medicine Lodge, KS | PART OF A POLE SHED WAS BLOWN OFF. |
| Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 11 N Medicine Lodge, KS | A HOG SHED WAS BLOWN OVER. |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 052024
TORDDC
KSC007-151-052100-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0081.080605T2024Z-080605T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
324 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
SOUTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
* AT 318 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF
ISABEL...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
29 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ISABEL...
RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN BARBER AND SOUTHEASTERN PRATT
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 3738 9870 3762 9848 3762 9846 3737 9846
3729 9851
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 210DEG 25KT 3741 9855
$$
RITTERLING1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KDDC 052039
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
339 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008
KSC007-151-052049-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0081.000000T0000Z-080605T2100Z/
PRATT KS-BARBER KS-
339 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL BARBER AND SOUTHEASTERN
PRATT COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3738 9870 3762 9848 3762 9846 3737 9846
3729 9851
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 210DEG 25KT 3750 9848
$$
RITTERLINGThe 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, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 32 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, 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.