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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 8, 2015Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2015, 7:35 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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: Apr 8, 2015, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -409 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2152 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 351 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 466 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

642 
WFUS53 KDDC 090035
TORDDC
KSC007-090100-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0006.150409T0035Z-150409T0100Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
    
* AT 734 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ISABEL AROUND 745 PM CDT.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BARBER
COUNTY.

NO NEW TORNADO REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED SINCE 655 PM, HOWEVER THIS 
IS STILL A SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM AND MAY PRODUCE A NEW TORNADO AT
ANY TIME!

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 3727 9861 3738 9872 3747 9862 3747 9847
      3739 9846 3738 9835 3730 9835
TIME...MOT...LOC 0034Z 239DEG 28KT 3734 9858 

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

$$

UMSCHEID

1 follow-up statement

612 
WWUS53 KDDC 090101
SVSDDC

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

KSC007-090110-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-150409T0100Z/
BARBER KS-
801 PM CDT WED APR 8 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL KANSAS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
DODGE CITY.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT.

LAT...LON 3727 9861 3738 9872 3747 9862 3747 9847
      3739 9846 3738 9835 3730 9835
TIME...MOT...LOC 0054Z 239DEG 28KT 3734 9858 

$$

RBURG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	38 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.