Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 8:14 PM CST for Allen 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
- Mar 12, 2003, 8:14 PM CST (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2003, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allen County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 130214 SVRICT KSC001-130315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 813 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CST. * AT 813 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF ELSMORE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHANUTE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SAVONBURG AROUND 830 PM CST... THIS REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR ALLEN COUNTY AT 719 PM CST. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORM HAS A LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALLEN COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CST. LAT...LON 3786 9538 3774 9540 3773 9510 3786 9510 $$ /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 49 min |
| Mar 12, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 56 min |
| Mar 12, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 53 min |
| Mar 12, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 70 min |
| Mar 12, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 46 min |
| Mar 12, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 56 min |
| Mar 12, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 42 min |
| Mar 12, 8:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 52 min |
| Mar 12, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 63 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.