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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2009, 5:25 PM CDT for Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports 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
- Jun 14, 2009, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2009, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Haskell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:25 PM CDT | TORNADO | 8 N Satanta, KS | A TORNADO WAS OBSERVED JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160 ALONG GG ROAD. |
| Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 Ne Ryus, KS | THE TORNADO DISSIPATED. |
| Jun 14, 5:43 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 8 Nnw Sublette, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 142225 TORDDC KSC081-142300- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0039.090614T2225Z-090614T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 525 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A CONFIRMED TORNADO OVER WEST CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY...OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF RYUS...MOVING EAST AT 20 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. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3766 10084 3748 10078 3751 10108 3761 10108 TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 271DEG 19KT 3756 10103 $$ RITTERLING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward, Stevens | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 10:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Seward | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hamilton, Kearny | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 1:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Kearny | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 1:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Gray, Hodgeman | 77 min |
| Jun 14, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade | 25 min |
| Jun 14, 6:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 47 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.