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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2010, 2:28 PM CDT for Haskell County, Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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
- May 24, 2010, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2010, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Haskell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:45 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Ssw Satanta, KS | |
| May 24, 2:45 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | 5 Sse Satanta, KS | BROADCAST MEDIA RECEIVED A VIEWER PHOTO OF GOLFBALL TO TWO INCH DIAMETER AT THIS LOCATION |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 1707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
770 WFUS53 KDDC 241928 TORDDC KSC081-175-189-242000- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0021.100524T1928Z-100524T2000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 228 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHWESTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 227 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF WOODS. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SATANTA AND SUBLETTE. 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 3721 10115 3753 10104 3745 10066 3714 10100 TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 213DEG 30KT 3725 10107 $$ RITTERLING
2 follow-up statements
825 WWUS53 KDDC 241949 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 249 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010 KSC081-175-189-242000- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100524T2000Z/ HASKELL KS-STEVENS KS-SEWARD KS- 249 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN SEWARD... NORTHEASTERN STEVENS AND SOUTHERN HASKELL COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT... AT 244 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF SATANTA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF WALL CLOUDS AND FUNNEL CLOUDS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SATANTA... SUBLETTE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN STEVENS...NORTHWESTERN SEWARD AND SOUTHERN HASKELL COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3726 10113 3753 10104 3745 10066 3721 10098 TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 214DEG 35KT 3740 10094 $$ RITTERLING
125 WWUS53 KDDC 242003 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 303 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010 KSC081-175-189-242013- /O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100524T2000Z/ HASKELL KS-STEVENS KS-SEWARD KS- 303 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN SEWARD...NORTHEASTERN STEVENS AND SOUTHERN HASKELL COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN HASKELL COUNTY. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3726 10113 3753 10104 3745 10066 3721 10098 TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 214DEG 35KT 3741 10093 $$ RITTERLING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 11:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 39 min |
| May 23, 11:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 52 min |
| May 24, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 49 min |
| May 24, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 26 min |
| May 24, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 47 min |
| May 24, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell | 31 min |
| May 24, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 35 min |
| May 24, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Lane | 26 min |
| May 24, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 51 min |
| May 24, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 42 min |
| May 24, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 46 min |
| May 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 24 min |
| May 24, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Scott | 35 min |
| May 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade | 45 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.