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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 26, 2009Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2009, 5:43 AM CDT for Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2009, 5:43 AM CDT (10:43 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2009, 6:12 AM CDT
In force: 29 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 1149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 261043
TORDDC
KSC145-185-261130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0017.090426T1043Z-090426T1130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
543 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
  NORTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 542 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF LARNED...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LARNED...
  RADIUM...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN PAWNEE AND NORTHWESTERN STAFFORD
  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.

THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR PAWNEE COUNTY.

&&

LAT...LON 3804 9916 3819 9928 3834 9903 3833 9902
      3826 9901 3826 9877 3823 9874
TIME...MOT...LOC 1043Z 237DEG 20KT 3817 9912

$$

GERARD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 261112
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
612 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2009

KSC145-185-261121-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-090426T1130Z/
PAWNEE KS-STAFFORD KS-
612 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2009

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL STAFFORD AND EASTERN PAWNEE
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RADIUM...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN PAWNEE AND NORTHERN STAFFORD COUNTIES.

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE TORNADO
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3804 9916 3819 9928 3834 9903 3833 9902
      3826 9901 3826 9877 3823 9874
TIME...MOT...LOC 1111Z 237DEG 20KT 3825 9896

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 5:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford	40 min
Apr 26, 11:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	42 min
Apr 26, 11:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	48 min
Apr 26, 11:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	39 min
Apr 26, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	47 min
Apr 26, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	42 min
Apr 26, 12:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Kiowa	36 min
Apr 26, 12:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	49 min
Apr 26, 12:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	35 min
Apr 26, 12:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	18 min
Apr 26, 12:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	30 min
Apr 26, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	43 min
Apr 26, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	42 min
Apr 26, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Kiowa	48 min
Apr 26, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	44 min
Apr 26, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	31 min
Apr 26, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	52 min
Apr 26, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	44 min
Apr 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	65 min
Apr 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	53 min
Apr 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	32 min
Apr 26, 6:54 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	DDC	Morton, Seward, Stevens	66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.