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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS

March 17, 2003Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2003, 5:06 PM CST for Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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 17, 2003, 5:06 PM CST (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 17, 2003, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kingman County, KS, Reno County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
Mar 17, 1:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 336 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1354 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 
WUUS53 KICT 172306
SVRICT
KSC095-155-180000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
506 PM CST MON MAR 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CST.

* AT 506 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHENEY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES
  WEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR MT VERNON AROUND 520 PM CST...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES...
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RENO
AND KINGMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3749 9783 3773 9774 3783 9792 3767 9811

$$

/OMITT

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	59 min
Mar 17, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	52 min
Mar 17, 3:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	63 min
Mar 17, 4:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	65 min
Mar 17, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	62 min
Mar 17, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	56 min
Mar 17, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	38 min
Mar 17, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	63 min
Mar 17, 5:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	67 min
Mar 17, 5:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	65 min
Mar 17, 5:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	54 min
Mar 17, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	66 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.