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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS

April 19, 2003Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2003, 8:10 AM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
Apr 19, 2003, 8:10 AM CDT (13:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2003, 8:45 AM CDT
In force
35 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), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 2003-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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 191310
SVRICT
KSC073-191345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
809 AM CDT SAT APR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 845 AM CDT.

* AT 809 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF FALL RIVER...OR ABOUT 19       
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF EUREKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VIRGIL AROUND 825 AM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES...
  DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR
GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 845 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3761 9622 3760 9598 3805 9596 3807 9606

$$

/DARMOFAL

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 2:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman60 min
Apr 19, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno62 min
Apr 19, 4:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick38 min
Apr 19, 7:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua37 min
Apr 19, 7:38 AM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua37 min
Apr 19, 7:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk36 min
Apr 19, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick54 min
Apr 19, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno48 min
Apr 19, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper59 min
Apr 19, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Sumner79 min
Apr 19, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey31 min
Apr 19, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick66 min
Apr 19, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler66 min
Apr 19, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner45 min
Apr 19, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Greenwood50 min
Apr 19, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner36 min
Apr 19, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler61 min
Apr 19, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley55 min
Apr 19, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMontgomery47 min
Apr 19, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood30 min
Apr 19, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette50 min
Apr 19, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTNeosho43 min
Apr 19, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen35 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.