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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 7, 2011Kearny County, Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 2011, 11:38 PM CDT for Kearny County, Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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: Oct 7, 2011, 11:38 PM CDT (04:38 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2011, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Kearny County, KS, Scott County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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
Oct 8, 12:10 AM CDT	TORNADO	4 N Modoc, 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
Oct 7, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 442 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

572 
WFUS53 KDDC 080438
TORDDC
KSC093-171-080515-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0028.111008T0438Z-111008T0515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1138 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF RAIN-WRAPPED TORNADOES     
  IN ADDITION TO WIDESPREAD STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE.               
  THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LYDIA...OR   
  17 MILES SOUTH OF LEOTI...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MODOC AND SCOTT CITY.

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 3827 10150 3827 10113 3861 10113 3855 10083
      3814 10125 3818 10154
TIME...MOT...LOC 0438Z 225DEG 30KT 3824 10131
HAIL <.50IN

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

516 
WWUS53 KDDC 080450
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1150 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011

KSC093-080459-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-111008T0515Z/
KEARNY KS-
1150 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN KEARNY COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

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

LAT...LON 3841 10113 3846 10112 3861 10113 3855 10083
      3827 10112 3832 10113
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 225DEG 60KT 3842 10117

$$

KSC171-080515-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-111008T0515Z/
SCOTT KS-
1150 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY
UNTIL 1215 AM CDT...

AT 1145 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF RAIN-WRAPPED 
TORNADOES IN ADDITION TO STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE. THIS DANGEROUS 
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LYDIA...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST 
OF LEOTI...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MODOC...
  SCOTT CITY...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3841 10113 3846 10112 3861 10113 3855 10083
      3827 10112 3832 10113
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 225DEG 60KT 3842 10117
HAIL <.50IN

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 7, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	43 min
Oct 7, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	45 min
Oct 7, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	45 min
Oct 7, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	47 min
Oct 7, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	43 min
Oct 7, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	48 min
Oct 7, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Lane, Scott	46 min
Oct 7, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	53 min
Oct 7, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	36 min
Oct 7, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	15 min
Oct 7, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	39 min
Oct 7, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	32 min
Oct 7, 11:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton, Stanton	55 min
Oct 8, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	45 min
Oct 8, 12:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Scott	18 min
Oct 8, 4:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Meade	48 min
Oct 8, 5:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	48 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.