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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2009, 8:44 PM CDT for Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 29, 2009, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2009, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Haskell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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 29, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 2241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 300144 TORDDC KSC081-300215- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0027.090430T0144Z-090430T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 844 PM CDT WED APR 29 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 843 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY...OR 11 MILES NORTH OF SUBLETTE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL HASKELL 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. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR HASKELL COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3767 10080 3756 10076 3755 10088 3766 10087 TIME...MOT...LOC 0144Z 355DEG 4KT 3764 10084 $$ 18
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 300152 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 852 PM CDT WED APR 29 2009 KSC081-300215- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-090430T0215Z/ HASKELL KS- 852 PM CDT WED APR 29 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY... AT 852 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF SUBLETTE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3767 10080 3756 10076 3755 10088 3766 10087 TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 355DEG 4KT 3763 10084 $$ 18
000 WWUS53 KDDC 300212 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 912 PM CDT WED APR 29 2009 KSC081-300222- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-090430T0215Z/ HASKELL KS- 912 PM CDT WED APR 29 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY EXPIRES AT 915 PM CDT... * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY. 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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3767 10080 3756 10076 3755 10088 3766 10087 TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 355DEG 4KT 3761 10084 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Scott | 31 min |
| Apr 29, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 22 min |
| Apr 29, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 63 min |
| Apr 29, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 28 min |
| Apr 29, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 74 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.