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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2010, 2:55 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Stanton 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 22, 2010, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2010, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 22, 3:00 PM MDT | HAIL 0.88 | 7 Ssw Kendall, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 12:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
458 WFUS53 KDDC 222055 TORDDC KSC075-093-187-222130- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0002.100422T2055Z-100422T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 255 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHWESTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 330 PM MDT/430 PM CDT/ * AT 252 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENDALL. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... KENDALL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3797 10180 3800 10141 3769 10154 3774 10181 TIME...MOT...LOC 2054Z 205DEG 33KT 3782 10160 $$ WRIGHT
1 follow-up statement
816 WWUS53 KDDC 222121 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 421 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010 KSC187-222128- /O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100422T2130Z/ STANTON KS- 421 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN STANTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3798 10157 3800 10141 3774 10153 3774 10164 TIME...MOT...LOC 2118Z 214DEG 32KT 3785 10149 $$ KSC075-093-222130- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100422T2130Z/ HAMILTON KS-KEARNY KS- 321 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL KEARNY AND SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM MDT/430 PM CDT/... AT 418 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KENDALL. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 350 PM, A FUNNEL WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT IN NORTHERN STANTON COUNTY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE COUNTY ROAD I AND COUNTY ROAD 6. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... KENDALL... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON AND WESTERN KEARNY COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3798 10157 3800 10141 3774 10153 3774 10164 TIME...MOT...LOC 2118Z 214DEG 32KT 3785 10149 $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 12:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 58 min |
| Apr 22, 2:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 42 min |
| Apr 22, 1:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Meade | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 1:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 3:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 3:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kearny | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 4:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 5:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 5:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Scott | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 5:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kearny | 26 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.