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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Wichita, KS

July 9, 2003Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2003, 7:44 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
Jul 9, 2003, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 9, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 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 100044
SVRICT
KSC015-100145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
743 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT.

* AT 743 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED 6 MILES NORTH   
OF EL DORADO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF BUTLER COUNTY...

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

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CHASE
AND BUTLER COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3789 9715 3749 9713 3772 9652 3818 9655

$$

/ELDER

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman57 min
Jul 9, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick62 min
Jul 9, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick46 min
Jul 9, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarper56 min
Jul 9, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood63 min
Jul 9, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick34 min
Jul 9, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWoodson56 min
Jul 9, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper63 min
Jul 9, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler58 min
Jul 9, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley54 min
Jul 9, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Neosho, Wilson61 min
Jul 9, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk53 min
Jul 9, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner65 min
Jul 9, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua55 min
Jul 9, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette, Montgomery53 min
Jul 9, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley61 min
Jul 9, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery53 min
Jul 9, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette66 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.