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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Wichita, KS

August 5, 2003Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2003, 5:57 PM CDT for Sumner 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
Aug 5, 2003, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2003-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 268 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2003-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

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

939 
WUUS53 KICT 052257
SVRICT
KSC191-060000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
557 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT.

* AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MULVANE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF
  DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR BELLE PLAINE AROUND 605 PM CDT...
  NEAR OXFORD AROUND 630 PM CDT...

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

SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER
COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3747 9716 3746 9732 3725 9732 3721 9715

$$

/OMITT

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper56 min
Aug 5, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick64 min
Aug 5, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper61 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.