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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2009, 12:45 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2009, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:45 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 WWUS53 KDDC 261800 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1200 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 KSC033-097-261815- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-090426T1815Z/ KIOWA KS-COMANCHE KS- 1200 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES... AT 1257 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...WAS 8 MILES NORTH OF WILMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WILMORE... BELVIDERE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3766 9902 3736 9902 3719 9935 3731 9954 TIME...MOT...LOC 1759Z 229DEG 46KT 3745 9924 $$ RUSSELL
2 follow-up statements
000 WFUS53 KDDC 261745 TORDDC KSC033-097-261815- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0021.090426T1745Z-090426T1815Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1245 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 115 PM CDT * AT 1244 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF COLDWATER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COLDWATER... WILMORE... BELVIDERE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3766 9902 3736 9902 3719 9935 3731 9954 TIME...MOT...LOC 1746Z 228DEG 40KT 3734 9930 $$ RUSSELL
000 WWUS53 KDDC 261810 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 110 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 KSC097-261815- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-090426T1815Z/ KIOWA KS- 110 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY... AT 108 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS REPORTED OVER EAST CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELVIDERE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY. THS TORNADO WARNING FOR COMANCHE COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AS THE STORM HAS MOVED NORTH OUT OF THE AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3740 9917 3742 9937 3766 9902 3751 9902 TIME...MOT...LOC 1808Z 229DEG 46KT 3752 9913 $$ 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, 12:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 18 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.