Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 9:57 PM CST for Montgomery 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2003, 9:57 PM CST (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2003, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 130357 SVRICT KSC125-130500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 957 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CST. * AT 957 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF COFFEYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT...WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM CST. LAT...LON 3714 9571 3701 9575 3701 9553 3714 9553 $$ /CARUSO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 49 min |
| Mar 12, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 56 min |
| Mar 12, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 53 min |
| Mar 12, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 70 min |
| Mar 12, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 46 min |
| Mar 12, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 56 min |
| Mar 12, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 42 min |
| Mar 12, 8:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 52 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.