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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2015, 12:16 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 5 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
- May 25, 2015, 12:16 AM CDT (05:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2015, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 12:20 AM CDT | TORNADO | 3 S Ft. Dodge, KS | A BARN WAS DAMAGED AND A PORCH TO A HOUSE HAD DAMAGE. TIME WAS ESTIMATED. |
| May 25, 12:20 AM CDT | TORNADO | 3 S Ft. Dodge, KS | |
| May 25, 12:35 AM CDT | TORNADO | 5 S Dodge City, KS | |
| May 25, 12:37 AM CDT | TORNADO | Ft. Dodge, KS | REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT THIS TIME. |
| May 25, 12:41 AM CDT | TORNADO | 2 E Ft. Dodge, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS53 KDDC 250516
TORDDC
KSC057-250545-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0032.150525T0516Z-150525T0545Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1216 AM CDT MON MAY 25 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
* AT 1216 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF ENSIGN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
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...
DODGE CITY AND FT. DODGE AROUND 1245 AM 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 3766 10022 3769 10021 3780 9991 3771 9986
3763 10019
TIME...MOT...LOC 0516Z 240DEG 20KT 3767 10014
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
HOVORKA1 follow-up statement
421
WWUS53 KDDC 250523
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1223 AM CDT MON MAY 25 2015
KSC057-250545-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-150525T0545Z/
FORD KS-
1223 AM CDT MON MAY 25 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL FORD COUNTY...
AT 1223 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
WEST CENTRAL FORD COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A
VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3766 10010 3769 10012 3773 9990 3771 9986
3766 10008
TIME...MOT...LOC 0523Z 240DEG 20KT 3769 10009
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
HOVORKAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 43 min |
| May 24, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 55 min |
| May 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 50 min |
| May 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 45 min |
| May 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 26 min |
| May 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 20 min |
| May 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 47 min |
| May 24, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kearny | 48 min |
| May 24, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Seward and 1 more | 44 min |
| May 24, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 49 min |
| May 24, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 27 min |
| May 24, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade, Seward | 50 min |
| May 24, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Scott | 47 min |
| May 24, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade, Seward | 33 min |
| May 24, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 12 min |
| May 24, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 49 min |
| May 24, 9:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Lane | 49 min |
| May 24, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade, Seward | 33 min |
| May 24, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 36 min |
| May 24, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 65 min |
| May 24, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 47 min |
| May 24, 11:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 10 hr |
| May 24, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 50 min |
| May 24, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 34 min |
| May 25, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Meade, Seward | 46 min |
| May 25, 12:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 24 min |
| May 25, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa | 55 min |
| May 25, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Meade | 52 min |
| May 25, 1:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 6 hr |
| May 25, 1:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 52 min |
| May 25, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade | 50 min |
| May 25, 2:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 47 min |
| May 25, 2:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 39 min |
| May 25, 2:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 65 min |
| May 25, 2:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 48 min |
| May 25, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards | 38 min |
| May 25, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.