Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 8:36 PM CST for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 12, 2003, 8:36 PM CST (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2003, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
939 WUUS53 KEAX 130236 SVRMCI KSC121-130315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO 835 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MIAMI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CST * AT 833 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOMERSET...OR 9 MILES EAST OF PAOLA... AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... MIAMI COUNTY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PLEASANT HILL. LAT...LON 3872 9503 3842 9503 3842 9465 3872 9463 $$ MS/NRR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 55 min |
| Mar 12, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.