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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2003, 6:40 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Labette County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 192340 TORICT KSC099-200030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 640 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COFFEYVILLE...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEARING. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR EDNA AROUND 700 PM CDT... 9 MILES SOUTH OF MOUND VALLEY AROUND 705 PM CDT... NEAR ALTAMONT AROUND 710 PM CDT... NEAR OSWEGO AROUND 725 PM CDT... THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A LARGE TORNADO. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LABETTE COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3701 9551 3701 9509 3726 9509 3726 9551 $$ /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, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 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, 6:47 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.