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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 25, 2012Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2012, 6:43 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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: May 25, 2012, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2012, 6:49 PM CDT
In force: 6 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 25, 6:53 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 W Walker, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1201 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 568 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 982 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

445 
WFUS53 KDDC 252343
TORDDC
KSC051-260000-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0050.120525T2343Z-120526T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
643 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 638 PM CDT...STORM CHASERS REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF WALKER. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME EASTERN ELLIS 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 3882 9904 3880 9910 3888 9920 3901 9904
      3900 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 229DEG 29KT 3887 9905
HAIL <.50IN

$$

WAH

1 follow-up statement

557 
WWUS53 KDDC 252349
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
649 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

KSC051-260000-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0050.000000T0000Z-120526T0000Z/
ELLIS KS-
649 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

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

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

LAT...LON 3882 9904 3880 9910 3888 9920 3901 9904
      3900 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 2350Z 229DEG 29KT 3891 9899

$$

WAH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 3:43 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more	29 hr
May 25, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	49 min
May 25, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	25 min
May 25, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis	10 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush	45 min
May 25, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	46 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.