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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2010, 9:12 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- May 25, 2010, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2010, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 25, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
857 WFUS53 KDDC 260212 TORDDC KSC195-260245- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0028.100526T0212Z-100526T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 912 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 909 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CONFIRMED LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF TREGO CENTER. THIS TORNADIC STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TREGO CENTER...OGALLAH AND CEDAR BLUFF. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPEAT...A LARGE...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY TORNADO IS CONFIRMED! TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE...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 3903 9969 3871 9968 3877 10010 3896 10010 TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 274DEG 33KT 3885 10006 $$ WRIGHT
1 follow-up statement
737 WWUS53 KDDC 260229 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 929 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010 KSC195-260245- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-100526T0245Z/ TREGO KS- 929 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM CDT... AT 930 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUED TO TRACK A DANGEROUS TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TREGO CENTER. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. AT 910 PM LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO MOVING 9 MILES SOUTH OF COLLYER. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TREGO CENTER... CEDAR BLUFF... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPEAT...A LARGE...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY TORNADO IS CONFIRMED! TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE...TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW! && LAT...LON 3903 9969 3871 9968 3877 10010 3896 10010 TIME...MOT...LOC 0227Z 274DEG 33KT 3884 9988 $$ WRIGHT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 43 min |
| May 25, 7:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 39 min |
| May 25, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 49 min |
| May 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 45 min |
| May 25, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 50 min |
| May 25, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 47 min |
| May 25, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 47 min |
| May 25, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 25 min |
| May 25, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 26 min |
| May 25, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 31 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 35 min |
| May 25, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 44 min |
| May 25, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 47 min |
| May 25, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 31 min |
| May 25, 11:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 4 hr |
| May 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 40 min |
| May 26, 5:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 38 min |
| May 26, 8:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Seward | 6 hr |
| May 26, 9:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Seward | 6 hr |
| May 26, 10:03 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | DDC | Trego | 23 hr |
| May 26, 10:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Meade, Seward | 6 hr |
| May 26, 1:57 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Meade | 14 hr |
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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.