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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 18, 2009, 3:20 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 18, 2009, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2009, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Edwards County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 3:23 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 11 Sse Kinsley, KS | |
| Apr 18, 3:29 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 13 Sse Kinsley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 182020 TORDDC KSC047-097-182100- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0015.090418T2020Z-090418T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 320 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CENTERVIEW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CENTERVIEW... FELLSBURG... LEWIS... BELPRE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN EDWARDS AND NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 700 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3799 9938 3799 9903 3768 9917 3775 9943 TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 204DEG 15KT 3781 9926 $$ GERARD
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 182046 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 346 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2009 KSC047-097-182100- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-090418T2100Z/ EDWARDS KS-KIOWA KS- 346 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA AND EASTERN EDWARDS COUNTIES... AT 345 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR CENTERVIEW...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CENTERVIEW... LEWIS... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN EDWARDS AND NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3799 9938 3799 9903 3768 9917 3775 9943 TIME...MOT...LOC 2046Z 187DEG 8KT 3782 9927 $$ GERARD
000 WWUS53 KDDC 182057 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 357 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2009 KSC047-097-182108- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-090418T2100Z/ EDWARDS KS-KIOWA KS- 357 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA AND EASTERN EDWARDS COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 400 PM CDT... * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CENTERVIEW... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN EDWARDS AND NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES. THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3799 9938 3799 9903 3768 9917 3775 9943 TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 187DEG 8KT 3785 9927 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 46 min |
| Apr 17, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 21 min |
| Apr 17, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 42 min |
| Apr 17, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 39 min |
| Apr 18, 12:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 52 min |
| Apr 18, 1:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 18 min |
| Apr 18, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Hodgeman | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Hodgeman | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 42 min |
| Apr 18, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 51 min |
| Apr 18, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Ness | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 40 min |
| Apr 18, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 47 min |
| Apr 18, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 39 min |
| Apr 18, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 47 min |
| Apr 18, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 26 min |
| Apr 18, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 40 min |
| Apr 18, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 47 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.