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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 2015Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2015, 4:11 PM CDT for Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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 7, 2015, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2015, 4:32 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

011 
WFUS53 KDDC 072111
TORDDC
KSC069-081-072145-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0020.150507T2111Z-150507T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
411 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  CENTRAL GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 410 PM CDT...TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF CIMARRON TO 6 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF TICE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND VEHICLES. 

* THESE TORNADIC STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  CIMARRON AROUND 415 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 3768 10085 3774 10074 3774 10065 3778 10065
      3798 10026 3775 10024 3748 10079
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 177DEG 35KT 3786 10031 3760 10078 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

384 
WWUS53 KDDC 072132
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
432 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015

KSC069-081-072142-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-150507T2145Z/
HASKELL KS-GRAY KS-
432 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN HASKELL AND CENTRAL GRAY
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
            
THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEAR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3768 10085 3774 10074 3774 10065 3778 10065
      3798 10026 3775 10024 3748 10079
TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 177DEG 35KT 3806 10032 3780 10079 

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	35 min
May 7, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	40 min
May 7, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	45 min
May 7, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee	41 min
May 7, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	51 min
May 7, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray, Seward	46 min
May 7, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Gray, Haskell	24 min
May 7, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee	51 min
May 7, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	50 min
May 7, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Rush	57 min
May 7, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush, Stafford	44 min
May 7, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	38 min
May 7, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	19 min
May 7, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	58 min
May 7, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Morton	32 min
May 7, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	56 min
May 7, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	52 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.