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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2015, 6:01 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 13 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
- Jun 25, 2015, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2015, 6:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
329 WFUS53 KDDC 252301 TORDDC KSC083-252330- /O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0047.150625T2301Z-150625T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 601 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 600 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED LANDSPOUT TORNADO WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JETMORE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HAZARD...TORNADO. SOURCE...PUBLIC CONFIRMED TORNADO. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND VEHICLES. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... JETMORE AROUND 615 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 3793 10010 3804 10018 3825 9976 3793 9966 TIME...MOT...LOC 2300Z 253DEG 22KT 3805 9998 TORNADO...OBSERVED HAIL...<.75IN $$ SUGDEN
1 follow-up statement
129
WWUS53 KDDC 252314
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
614 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015
KSC083-252323-
/O.CAN.KDDC.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-150625T2330Z/
HODGEMAN KS-
614 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL HODGEMAN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3793 10010 3804 10018 3825 9976 3793 9966
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 253DEG 22KT 3807 9988
$$
SUGDENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 6:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 13 min |
| Jun 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 37 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.