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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 18, 2015Barber County, Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 18, 2015, 3:40 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 18, 2015, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2015, 4:04 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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.

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 18, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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.

341 
WFUS53 KDDC 182040
TORDDC
KSC007-033-097-182130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0012.150418T2040Z-150418T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
    
* AT 340 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUN CITY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF 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...
  SUN CITY AROUND 400 PM CDT.
  LAKE CITY AROUND 405 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR 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 3713 9900 3726 9915 3746 9901 3746 9854
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 228DEG 25KT 3725 9901 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

766 
WWUS53 KDDC 182104
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
404 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2015

KSC007-033-097-182113-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-150418T2130Z/
BARBER KS-COMANCHE KS-KIOWA KS-
404 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BARBER...NORTHEASTERN
COMANCHE AND SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. 
MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE 
AREA UNTIL 415 PM.  

LAT...LON 3713 9900 3726 9915 3746 9901 3746 9854
TIME...MOT...LOC 2102Z 228DEG 25KT 3736 9886 

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	53 min
Apr 17, 8:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	63 min
Apr 17, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	43 min
Apr 18, 4:42 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray and 9 more	4 hr
Apr 18, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	59 min
Apr 18, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	36 min
Apr 18, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	48 min
Apr 18, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	50 min
Apr 18, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	63 min
Apr 18, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	63 min
Apr 18, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	42 min
Apr 18, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	57 min
Apr 18, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	53 min
Apr 18, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	48 min
Apr 18, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	24 min
Apr 18, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	47 min
Apr 18, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	34 min
Apr 18, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	40 min
Apr 18, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.