Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2010, 6:43 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 6 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
- Apr 22, 2010, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2010, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 7:07 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | Shallow Water, KS | |
| Apr 22, 7:07 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Shallow Water, KS | |
| Apr 22, 7:09 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | W Scott City, KS | |
| Apr 22, 7:10 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 82 | 1 Wnw Shallow Water, KS | FROM APRS WXNET. |
| Apr 22, 7:10 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 S Scott City, KS | GRAIN BINS DAMAGED WITH TWO TOTALLY DESTROYED. BARN PARTIALLY COLLAPSED WITH PART OF ROOF TORN OFF. TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN TO THE RESIDENCE. |
| Apr 22, 7:12 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | W Scott City, 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, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.
360 WFUS53 KDDC 222343 TORDDC KSC171-230015- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0007.100422T2343Z-100423T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 643 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 639 PM CDT...STORM CHASERS AND TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF SHALLOW WATER. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHALLOW WATER...MODOC...SCOTT CITY AND MANNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS CONFIRMED WITH THIS STORM. 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. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 3861 10107 3854 10071 3827 10097 3828 10112 TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 194DEG 20KT 3836 10101 $$ RUSSELL
1 follow-up statement
667 WWUS53 KDDC 230005 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 705 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010 KSC171-230015- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-100423T0015Z/ SCOTT KS- 705 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SCOTT COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM CDT... AT 701 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHALLOW WATER... SCOTT CITY... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SCOTT COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 3861 10107 3854 10071 3827 10097 3828 10112 TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 218DEG 24KT 3845 10093 $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 58 min |
| Apr 22, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 42 min |
| Apr 22, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Meade | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kearny | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 6:49 PM CDT | 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.