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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 7, 2009Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2009, 6:22 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 11 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: Mar 7, 2009, 6:22 PM CST (00:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2009, 6:33 PM CST
In force: 11 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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
Mar 7, 6:25 PM CST	HAIL 0.75	6 Se Isabel, 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
Mar 7, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 654 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 080022
TORDDC
KSC007-080045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0001.090308T0022Z-090308T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
622 PM CST SAT MAR 7 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 616 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A CONFIRMED TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY...OR 6
  MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY.

AT 618 PM CST...THERE WAS A REPORT OF A BRIEF TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH
OF MEDICINE LODGE RELAYED BY BROADCAST MEDIA.

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.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3731 9853 3740 9859 3746 9846 3745 9845
      3739 9845 3738 9834 3735 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 244DEG 30KT 3737 9846

$$

UMSCHEID

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 080033
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
633 PM CST SAT MAR 7 2009

KSC007-080041-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-090308T0045Z/
BARBER KS-
631 PM CST SAT MAR 7 2009

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA AND HAS MOVED INTO
SOUTHWESTERN KINGMAN COUNTY...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED.

NO ADDITIONAL TORNADO REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST
SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3731 9853 3740 9859 3746 9846 3745 9845
      3739 9845 3738 9834 3735 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0031Z 244DEG 30KT 3741 9836

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 6:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	23 min
Mar 7, 6:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	32 min

Nearby

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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.