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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 14, 2012Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2012, 4:44 PM CDT for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 2 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 14, 2012, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2012, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 14, 4:48 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 W Sawyer, KS
Apr 14, 4:50 PM CDT	TORNADO	Nw Sawyer, 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 14, 10:43 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 1516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 413 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 432 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 11.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

493 
WFUS53 KDDC 142144 RRA
TORDDC
KSC007-151-142215-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0023.120414T2144Z-120414T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
444 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  EASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 439 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR
  SAWYER. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
  DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH
  THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CAIRO AND PRESTON.

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 3741 9867 3750 9886 3779 9864 3779 9850
      3780 9847 3757 9846 3755 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 229DEG 52KT 3756 9860
HAIL 2.00IN

$$

RUSSELL

2 follow-up statements

848 
WWUS53 KDDC 142207
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
507 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

KSC007-142217-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-120414T2215Z/
BARBER KS-
507 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL BARBER COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA. ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN 
BARBER COUNTY. 

LAT...LON 3753 9854 3758 9863 3771 9860 3779 9850
      3780 9847 3757 9846 3755 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 228DEG 47KT 3767 9844

$$

KSC151-142215-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-120414T2215Z/
PRATT KS-
507 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL PRATT COUNTY
UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

AT 503 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF
CAIRO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CAIRO...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN PRATT 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 3753 9854 3758 9863 3771 9860 3779 9850
      3780 9847 3757 9846 3755 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 228DEG 47KT 3767 9844
HAIL 2.00IN

$$

RUSSELL

688 
WWUS53 KDDC 142223
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
523 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

KSC151-142234-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-120414T2215Z/
PRATT KS-
523 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL PRATT COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

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

LAT...LON 3753 9854 3758 9863 3771 9860 3779 9850
      3780 9847 3757 9846 3755 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 228DEG 47KT 3767 9844

$$

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 9:47 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more	21 hr
Apr 14, 10:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	37 min
Apr 14, 10:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	50 min
Apr 14, 10:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	47 min
Apr 14, 10:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	47 min
Apr 14, 10:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Lane, Scott	34 min
Apr 14, 10:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	37 min
Apr 14, 11:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	41 min
Apr 14, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	52 min
Apr 14, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	42 min
Apr 14, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	44 min
Apr 14, 12:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Trego	44 min
Apr 14, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	47 min
Apr 14, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	40 min
Apr 14, 12:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Rush	5 hr
Apr 14, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade	39 min
Apr 14, 1:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	11 hr
Apr 14, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	44 min
Apr 14, 1:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	34 min
Apr 14, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	27 min
Apr 14, 2:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee	29 min
Apr 14, 2:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Kiowa	42 min
Apr 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	35 min
Apr 14, 2:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	27 min
Apr 14, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	38 min
Apr 14, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Kiowa	32 min
Apr 14, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche	50 min
Apr 14, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	32 min
Apr 14, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	23 min
Apr 14, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	49 min
Apr 14, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche	34 min
Apr 14, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	33 min
Apr 14, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	33 min
Apr 14, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	28 min
Apr 14, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	40 min
Apr 14, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Rush	17 min
Apr 14, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt	34 min
Apr 14, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stafford	30 min
Apr 14, 4:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	28 min
Apr 14, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stafford	25 min
Apr 14, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stafford	31 min
Apr 14, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	25 min
Apr 14, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	25 min
Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	25 min
Apr 14, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt	34 min
Apr 14, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	28 min
Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	31 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.