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Tornado Warning 84, NWS Dodge City, KS

November 10, 2008Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2008, 3:26 PM CST for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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: Nov 10, 2008, 3:26 PM CST (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2008, 3:44 PM CST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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
Nov 10, 3:27 PM CST	TORNADO	4 Nw Johnson City, KS	REPORT STATED THERE WAS A LARGE TORNADO ON THE GROUND 4 TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON.
Nov 10, 3:33 PM CST	TORNADO	3 Nw Johnson City, KS	THIS REPORT STATED A LARGE TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND 3 TO 3.5 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 102126
TORDDC
KSC187-102215-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0084.081110T2126Z-081110T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
326 PM CST MON NOV 10 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 323 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A CONFIRMED TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON CITY...
  MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN STANTON 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.

LAT...LON 3774 10183 3773 10164 3756 10171 3758 10183
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 184DEG 10KT 3761 10177

$$

GERARD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 102144
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
344 PM CST MON NOV 10 2008

KSC187-102154-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0084.000000T0000Z-081110T2215Z/
STANTON KS-
344 PM CST MON NOV 10 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL STANTON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN STANTON COUNTY.

THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3774 10183 3773 10164 3756 10171 3758 10183
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 184DEG 10KT 3766 10177

$$

GERARD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 2:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	48 min
Nov 10, 2:45 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	45 min
Nov 10, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	43 min
Nov 10, 3:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	38 min
Nov 10, 5:41 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 14 more	5 hr

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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.