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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 29, 2009Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2009, 6:55 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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: Apr 29, 2009, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2009, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 29, 7:02 PM CDT	TORNADO	5 Sw Garden City, KS	TORNADO REPORTED BY KAKE NEWS.

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 29, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 384 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 548 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 292355
TORDDC
KSC055-300030-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0023.090429T2355Z-090430T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
655 PM CDT WED APR 29 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 654 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF
  GARDEN CITY...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF HOLCOMB...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RESIDENCE JUST SOUTH GARDEN CITY...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY.

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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3799 10077 3786 10070 3788 10105 3797 10107
TIME...MOT...LOC 2355Z 275DEG 5KT 3794 10098

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	51 min
Apr 29, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	46 min
Apr 29, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	66 min
Apr 29, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	62 min
Apr 29, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	48 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.