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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2009, 2:45 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 2, 2009, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2009, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 021945 TORDDC KSC057-022030- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0028.090602T1945Z-090602T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 245 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 241 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A CONFIRMED TORNADO 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLOOM...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY SOUTH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL RESIDENCES OF WESTERN FORD 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. && LAT...LON 3748 9988 3750 10019 3769 10018 3772 10000 TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 334DEG 1KT 3771 10007 $$ WRIGHT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Gray | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Gray | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 3:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Ford | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 28 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.