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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 15, 2012Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2012, 12:42 AM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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 15, 2012, 12:42 AM CDT (05:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 14, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 2195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 335 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 436 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.9
Supercell composite: 19.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

400 
WFUS53 KDDC 150542
TORDDC
KSC007-150615-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0033.120415T0542Z-120415T0615Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1242 AM CDT SUN APR 15 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1237 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES
  SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 60 MPH. QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHARON.

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 3708 9858 3718 9868 3739 9839 3739 9835
      3738 9834 3720 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0542Z 234DEG 54KT 3721 9848
HAIL 1.00IN

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

857 
WWUS53 KDDC 150600
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
100 AM CDT SUN APR 15 2012

KSC007-150610-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-120415T0615Z/
BARBER KS-
100 AM CDT SUN APR 15 2012

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

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3708 9858 3718 9868 3739 9839 3739 9835
      3738 9834 3720 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0600Z 234DEG 54KT 3737 9820

$$

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, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Kiowa	27 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 Emergency	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, 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

Nearby

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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.