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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2003, 5:35 PM CDT for Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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 28, 2003, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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 28, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KICT 282235
TORICT
KSC205-282330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
535 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 535 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
YATES CENTER...OR 6 MILES WEST OF FREDONIA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
NEAR FREDONIA AROUND 555 PM CDT...
NEAR ALTOONA AROUND 620 PM CDT...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WILSON COUNTY UNTIL
630 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3767 9595 3745 9593 3744 9564 3757 9555
3769 9579
$$
/LAWSON
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 52 min |
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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.