Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2003, 8:12 PM CDT for Greenwood 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
- Jul 9, 2003, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1823 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 100112 SVRICT KSC073-100215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 812 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT. * AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF EUREKA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR EUREKA AROUND 825 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3794 9649 3773 9651 3770 9597 3799 9597 $$ /COX NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 65 min |
| Jul 9, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 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.