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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2009, 12:37 PM CDT for Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2009, 12:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 26, 5:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 18.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 261737 TORDDC KSC025-033-261800- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0020.090426T1737Z-090426T1800Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1237 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. EAST CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1237 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PROTECTION...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SITKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PROTECTION... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN CLARK AND WESTERN COMANCHE 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 SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3731 9955 3722 9939 3705 9957 3707 9969 TIME...MOT...LOC 1737Z 223DEG 24KT 3713 9958 $$ RUSSELL
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 261748 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1248 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 KSC025-033-261800- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-090426T1800Z/ CLARK KS-COMANCHE KS- 1248 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL COMANCHE AND EAST CENTRAL CLARK COUNTIES... AT 1248 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PROTECTION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PROTECTION... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN CLARK AND WESTERN COMANCHE COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3731 9955 3722 9939 3716 9950 3720 9959 TIME...MOT...LOC 1748Z 223DEG 24KT 3718 9952 $$ RUSSELL
000 WWUS53 KDDC 261755 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1255 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 KSC025-033-261803- /O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-090426T1800Z/ CLARK KS-COMANCHE KS- 1255 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL COMANCHE AND EAST CENTRAL CLARK COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AN EARLIER STATEMENT METIONED A TORNADO SOUTHWEST OF PROTECTION AND WAS ERRONEOUS. NO TORNADO WAS BEEN CONFIRMED AT THAT TIME. A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PROTECTION... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN CLARK AND WESTERN COMANCHE COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3731 9955 3722 9939 3716 9950 3720 9959 TIME...MOT...LOC 1753Z 223DEG 24KT 3721 9949 $$ RUSSELL
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, 5:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 29 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, 12:45 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 |
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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.