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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 8, 2015Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2015, 6:15 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 3 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: Apr 8, 2015, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 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

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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
Apr 8, 6:26 PM CDT	TORNADO	8 E Buttermilk, KS	THE TORNADO WAS OBSERVED BY SEVERE STUDIOS LIVE FEED.
Apr 8, 6:40 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	6 Nw Aetna, KS
Apr 8, 6:55 PM CDT	TORNADO	9 Nne Aetna, KS	THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY BUT WAS OBSCURED BY RAIN AT THE TIME OF THE REPORT.

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
Apr 8, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

719 
WFUS53 KDDC 082315
TORDDC
KSC007-033-082345-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0003.150408T2315Z-150408T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
615 PM CDT WED APR 8 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
    
* AT 615 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BUTTERMILK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 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 TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHWESTERN BARBER AND EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTIES.

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 3701 9919 3708 9929 3735 9907 3708 9880
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 229DEG 31KT 3708 9920 

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

$$

UMSCHEID

1 follow-up statement

878 
WWUS53 KDDC 082329
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
629 PM CDT WED APR 8 2015

KSC007-033-082345-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150408T2345Z/
BARBER KS-COMANCHE KS-
629 PM CDT WED APR 8 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN BARBER AND EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTIES...
    
AT 628 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
AETNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...STORM CHASER CONFIRMED VIA LIVE VIDEO STREAM. 

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. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
AETNA.

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 3707 9912 3713 9921 3735 9907 3708 9880
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 233DEG 32KT 3714 9909 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...2.75IN

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 5:23 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DDC	Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 7 more	4 hr
Apr 8, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	53 min
Apr 8, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	50 min
Apr 8, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	66 min
Apr 8, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.