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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wichita, KS

May 4, 2003Labette County, Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2003, 3:51 PM CDT for Labette County, Neosho 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: May 4, 2003, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Labette County, KS, Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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
May 4, 12:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -362 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 474 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KICT 042051
SVRICT
KSC099-133-042130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
351 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
  LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT.

* AT 351 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PARSONS TRI-CITY AIRPORT...OR ABOUT 15
  MILES WEST OF PARSONS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR GALESBURG AROUND 405 PM CDT...
  NEAR ERIE AROUND 415 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY


A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NEOSHO
AND LABETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3738 9552 3725 9550 3729 9519 3757 9524

$$

/WOLF

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	49 min
May 4, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	38 min
May 4, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	47 min
May 4, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	27 min
May 4, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	38 min
May 4, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	45 min
May 4, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	36 min
May 4, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	33 min
May 4, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	35 min
May 4, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	41 min
May 4, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	43 min
May 4, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	55 min
May 4, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette	32 min
May 4, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	56 min
May 4, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003 Every 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.