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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Wichita, KS

May 6, 2003Allen County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT for Allen County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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
May 6, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Allen County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 6, 11:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 2003-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 98 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

791 
WFUS53 KICT 062055
TORICT
KSC001-062200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
355 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 355 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 9 MILES NORTH OF
  CHANUTE...OR OVER HUMBOLDT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM
  COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR MORAN AROUND 415 PM CDT...

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALLEN COUNTY UNTIL
500 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3781 9550 3774 9550 3774 9510 3800 9509

$$

/KETCHAM

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 4:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette52 min
May 6, 7:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen58 min
May 6, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson, Woodson78 min
May 6, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen55 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.