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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 12, 2015Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 12, 2015, 8:20 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 10 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 12, 2015, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2015, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 10 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 1.25 in

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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.

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 12, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 3762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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.

865 
WFUS53 KDDC 130120
TORDDC
KSC007-130130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0009.150413T0120Z-150413T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
820 PM CDT SUN APR 12 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 820 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF
  NASHVILLE...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF SHARON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

  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
  NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY.

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 3732 9838 3737 9845 3737 9846 3738 9844
      3738 9835 3732 9835
TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 246DEG 11KT 3737 9841 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

KRUSE

1 follow-up statement

515 
WWUS53 KDDC 130127
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
827 PM CDT SUN APR 12 2015

KSC007-130136-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-150413T0130Z/
BARBER KS-
827 PM CDT SUN APR 12 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
830 PM CDT...
    
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN LIKELY
AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3732 9838 3737 9845 3737 9846 3738 9844
      3738 9835 3732 9835
TIME...MOT...LOC 0126Z 246DEG 11KT 3737 9841 

$$

KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	44 min
Apr 12, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	58 min
Apr 12, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	58 min
Apr 12, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	42 min
Apr 12, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	32 min
Apr 12, 8:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	59 min
Apr 12, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	45 min
Apr 12, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	37 min
Apr 12, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	16 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.