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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 24, 2010Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2010, 2:59 PM CDT for Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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: May 24, 2010, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2010, 3:30 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), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3:15 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	9 Nnw Tice, 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
May 24, 11:46 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

077 
WFUS53 KDDC 241959
TORDDC
KSC081-242030-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0022.100524T1959Z-100524T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
259 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 257 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF SUBLETTE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  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 3771 10092 3761 10065 3741 10085 3744 10097
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 213DEG 19KT 3746 10089

$$

RITTERLING

1 follow-up statement

057 
WWUS53 KDDC 242017
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
317 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010

KSC081-242030-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-100524T2030Z/
HASKELL KS-
317 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY
UNTIL 330 PM CDT...

AT 314 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST
OF TICE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY.

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 3771 10092 3761 10065 3751 10075 3757 10090
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 210DEG 26KT 3760 10078

$$

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, 2:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell, Seward, Stevens	32 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

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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.