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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2014, 6:48 PM CDT for Finney County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. 2 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
- Jun 6, 2014, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2014, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.5 in
Counties Finney County, KS, Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:58 PM CDT | TORNADO | W Deerfield, KS | SPOTTER REPORTED BRIEF SMALL CONE TORNADO LESS THAN ONE MILE WEST OF DEERFIELD. |
| Jun 6, 6:59 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 N Deerfield, KS | MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS, MOVING EAST. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
309
WFUS53 KDDC 062348
TORDDC
KSC055-093-070015-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0009.140606T2348Z-140607T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
648 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
EAST CENTRAL KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 644 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKIN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND UP TO PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
DEERFIELD AROUND 655 PM CDT.
HOLCOMB AROUND 715 PM CDT.
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 3817 10101 3798 10093 3793 10121 3801 10126
TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 243DEG 20KT 3799 10119
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN
$$
WAH1 follow-up statement
937
WWUS53 KDDC 070001
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
701 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014
KSC055-093-070015-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-140607T0015Z/
KEARNY KS-FINNEY KS-
701 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL FINNEY AND
EAST CENTRAL KEARNY COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT...
AT 658 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR DEERFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND UP TO PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
HOLCOMB AROUND 710 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3797 10116 3805 10120 3817 10101 3798 10093
TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 243DEG 20KT 3802 10111
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN
$$
WAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade, Seward | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Gray | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kearny | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 48 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.