Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2003, 5:59 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
- Apr 19, 2003, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2003, 7:00 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), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 192259 SVRICT KSC015-200000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 559 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT. * AT 559 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF ATLANTA...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF EL DORADO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR LATHAM AROUND 610 PM CDT... 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEON AROUND 615 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3748 9700 3748 9654 3783 9653 3784 9674 $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 7:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 37 min |
| Apr 19, 7:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 37 min |
| Apr 19, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 79 min |
| Apr 19, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 35 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.