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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2015, 7:45 PM CDT for Clark County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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 9, 2015, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2015, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.0 in
Counties Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 9, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
619
WFUS53 KDDC 100045
TORDDC
KSC025-119-100115-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0023.150510T0045Z-150510T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
745 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
EAST CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 745 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOWLER...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND VEHICLES.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
MINNEOLA AROUND 805 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 3728 10020 3747 9999 3734 9966 3714 10004
TIME...MOT...LOC 0045Z 235DEG 23KT 3730 10005
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
RBURG1 follow-up statement
362
WWUS53 KDDC 100055
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
755 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015
KSC119-100105-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-150510T0115Z/
MEADE KS-
755 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3720 10005 3728 10009 3730 10009 3747 9999
3737 9974
TIME...MOT...LOC 0055Z 222DEG 28KT 3735 9999
$$
KSC025-100115-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-150510T0115Z/
CLARK KS-
755 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTY...
AT 755 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF MINNEOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND VEHICLES.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
MINNEOLA AROUND 800 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 3720 10005 3728 10009 3730 10009 3747 9999
3737 9974
TIME...MOT...LOC 0055Z 222DEG 28KT 3735 9999
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
RBURGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade, Seward | 51 min |
| May 9, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Hodgeman | 28 min |
| May 9, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 30 min |
| May 9, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 30 min |
| May 9, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 43 min |
| May 9, 8:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 38 min |
| May 9, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 46 min |
| May 9, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 23 min |
| May 9, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 43 min |
| May 9, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 31 min |
| May 9, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 56 min |
| May 9, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche | 52 min |
| May 9, 11:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 40 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.