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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 22, 2010Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2010, 6:49 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 22, 2010, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2010, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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.

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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 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

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The text

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

390 
WFUS53 KDDC 222349
TORDDC
KSC093-230015-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0008.100422T2349Z-100423T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
649 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 644 PM CDT...STORM CHASERS AND TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED
  A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF LYDIA...OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  DEERFIELD. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING         
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL SIZE IS     
  ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN KEARNY COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3826 10136 3826 10121 3826 10112 3825 10111
      3819 10111 3807 10122 3812 10142
TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 212DEG 21KT 3817 10126

$$

WRIGHT

2 follow-up statements

703 
WWUS53 KDDC 222359
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
659 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010

KSC093-230015-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-100423T0015Z/
KEARNY KS-
659 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY
UNTIL 715 PM CDT...

AT 657 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF LYDIA...OR 17 MILES NORTH OF DEERFIELD. DOPPLER RADAR
SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3826 10136 3826 10121 3826 10112 3825 10111
      3819 10111 3807 10122 3812 10142
TIME...MOT...LOC 2359Z 194DEG 18KT 3822 10123

$$

RUSSELL

894 
WWUS53 KDDC 230016
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
716 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010

KSC093-230026-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-100423T0015Z/
KEARNY KS-
716 PM CDT THU APR 22 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

LAT...LON 3826 10136 3826 10121 3826 10112 3825 10111
      3819 10111 3807 10122 3812 10142
TIME...MOT...LOC 2359Z 194DEG 18KT 3822 10123

$$

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, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Scott	32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.