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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2012, 8:41 PM CDT for Ellis County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 6 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
- May 25, 2012, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2012, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Ellis County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:41 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 E Mccracken, KS | |
| May 25, 8:45 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 Sw Hargrave, KS | |
| May 25, 8:50 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 Wnw Liebenthal, KS | SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED, INCLUDING 6-8 INCH LIMBS BROKE AND UNKNOWN TREES FOUND AT THE PROPERTY. AN OVERHEAD DOOR AND WOODEN AWNING WERE BLOWN AWAY. |
| May 25, 9:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 Nw Hargrave, KS | |
| May 25, 9:16 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 Wnw Hargrave, KS | |
| May 25, 9:25 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 S Hargrave, KS | ELEPHANT TRUNK TORNADO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 1736 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
344 WFUS53 KDDC 260141 TORDDC KSC051-165-260215- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0053.120526T0141Z-120526T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 841 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 840 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR HARGRAVE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HARGRAVE...LIEBENTHAL...LORETTA AND SCHOENCHEN. 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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY. && LAT...LON 3881 9929 3861 9911 3848 9946 3856 9954 TIME...MOT...LOC 0141Z 230DEG 19KT 3854 9945 HAIL <.50IN $$ WAH
1 follow-up statement
832 WWUS53 KDDC 260207 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 907 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012 KSC051-165-260215- /O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-120526T0215Z/ RUSH KS-ELLIS KS- 907 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ELLIS AND NORTHERN RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 903 PM CDT...STORM CHASERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF LIEBENTHAL. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HARGRAVE... LIEBENTHAL... SCHOENCHEN... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN RUSH AND SOUTHERN ELLIS COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS CONFIRMED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3877 9931 3861 9917 3851 9945 3856 9950 TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 230DEG 19KT 3863 9932 HAIL <.50IN $$ WAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 50 min |
| May 25, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush | 51 min |
| May 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 23 min |
| May 25, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush | 31 min |
| May 25, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush | 49 min |
| May 25, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 33 min |
| May 25, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 26 min |
| May 25, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 33 min |
| May 25, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 46 min |
| May 25, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 37 min |
| May 25, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 50 min |
| May 25, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 26 min |
| May 25, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 14 min |
| May 25, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 28 min |
| May 25, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 17 min |
| May 26, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 43 min |
| May 26, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Ness | 44 min |
| May 26, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 50 min |
| May 26, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 50 min |
| May 26, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Kearny, Stevens | 59 min |
| May 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 22 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.