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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wichita, KS

May 25, 1997Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1997, 7:02 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 1997, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1997, 8:05 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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
May 25, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 917 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 260002 RRA
TORICT
KSC095-260105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
702 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  KINGMAN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 805 PM CDT
 
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
    JUST NORTH OF DUQUOIN
    SOUTH OF SPIVEY
    SOUTH OF RAGO

* AT 700 PM SEVERAL TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 60 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA...ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF DUQUOIN MOVING EAST
AT 15 MPH.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

HOWERTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	64 min
May 25, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	63 min
May 25, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	63 min
May 25, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper	63 min
May 25, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	62 min
May 25, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	47 min
May 25, 7:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	61 min
May 25, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	60 min
May 25, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	65 min
May 25, 8:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler	61 min
May 25, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	61 min
May 25, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	33 min
May 25, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	59 min
May 25, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler	60 min
May 25, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	44 min
May 25, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Greenwood	65 min
May 25, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	62 min
May 25, 10:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Greenwood, Woodson	61 min
May 25, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	64 min
May 25, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	63 min
May 25, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	51 min
May 26, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	62 min
May 26, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	61 min
May 26, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	60 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.