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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 8, 2013Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2013, 6:41 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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: May 8, 2013, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2013, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 1.25 in

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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.

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 8, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 2545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

894 
WFUS53 KDDC 082341
TORDDC
KSC051-090015-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0003.130508T2341Z-130509T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
641 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 636 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR EMMERAM...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...PUBLIC CONFIRMED TORNADO.

  IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE HEAVILY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
           SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL
           OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS.
           EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 3913 9903 3903 9903 3894 9918 3903 9929
      3914 9919 3914 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 223DEG 17KT 3902 9919

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

UMSCHEID

2 follow-up statements

319 
WWUS53 KDDC 090002
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
702 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2013

KSC051-090015-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-130509T0015Z/
ELLIS KS-
702 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2013

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY
UNTIL 715 PM CDT...

AT 700 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF EMMERAM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

HAZARD...DEVELOPING TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE HEAVILY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
         SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL
         OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS.
         EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN 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 3913 9903 3903 9903 3894 9918 3903 9929
      3914 9919 3914 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 0002Z 220DEG 12KT 3905 9917

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

UMSCHEID

553 
WWUS53 KDDC 090015
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
715 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2013

KSC051-090024-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-130509T0015Z/
ELLIS KS-
715 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2013

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
715 PM CDT/615 PM MDT/...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO 
LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3913 9903 3903 9903 3894 9918 3903 9929
      3914 9919 3914 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 220DEG 12KT 3908 9914

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	40 min
May 7, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	51 min
May 7, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	43 min
May 7, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Rush	39 min
May 7, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	43 min
May 7, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	46 min
May 7, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	42 min
May 7, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	45 min
May 7, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	43 min
May 7, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	37 min
May 7, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	47 min
May 7, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	46 min
May 7, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	42 min
May 7, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	44 min
May 7, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	45 min
May 7, 11:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	36 min
May 8, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	42 min
May 8, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	61 min
May 8, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	55 min
May 8, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	55 min
May 8, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	52 min
May 8, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Kiowa	53 min
May 8, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	44 min
May 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Kearny	42 min
May 8, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	66 min
May 8, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Kiowa	63 min
May 8, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny	58 min
May 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Lane, Scott	58 min
May 8, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	31 min
May 8, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Kiowa, Pratt	60 min
May 8, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	61 min
May 8, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness and 1 more	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.