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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2012, 8:03 PM CDT for Clark County, Ford County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. 3 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, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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, 8:26 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 9 Nne Mullinville, KS | |
| Apr 14, 8:35 PM CDT | HAIL 2.5 | 2 Wnw Greensburg, KS | HAIL WAS GOLF BALL TO TENNIS BALL SIZED. |
| Apr 14, 8:35 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 Wnw Greensburg, 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, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 2712 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.0
- Supercell composite
- 30.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
169 WFUS53 KDDC 150103 TORDDC KSC025-057-097-150130- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0028.120415T0103Z-120415T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 803 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 758 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF CLARK STATE LAKE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BUCKLIN AND MULLINVILLE. 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 3734 9983 3772 9961 3772 9922 3726 9964 TIME...MOT...LOC 0103Z 221DEG 47KT 3744 9965 HAIL <.50IN $$ RUSSELL
1 follow-up statement
425 WWUS53 KDDC 150124 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 824 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 KSC025-057-150134- /O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-120415T0130Z/ CLARK KS-FORD KS- 824 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN FORD AND NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3759 9937 3761 9952 3772 9952 3772 9922 TIME...MOT...LOC 0124Z 221DEG 56KT 3766 9942 $$ KSC097-150130- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-120415T0130Z/ KIOWA KS- 824 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM CDT... AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF MULLINVILLE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN KIOWA 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 3759 9937 3761 9952 3772 9952 3772 9922 TIME...MOT...LOC 0124Z 221DEG 56KT 3766 9942 HAIL <.50IN $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Meade | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Pawnee, Rush | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 20 min |
| Apr 14, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 19 min |
| Apr 14, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt and 1 more | 39 min |
| Apr 14, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 23 min |
| Apr 15, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 12:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 18 min |
| Apr 15, 3:55 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:50 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DDC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 17 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.