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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 5:38 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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 8, 2003, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 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), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 517 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KICT 082238
TORICT
KSC015-082345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
538 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES EAST OF EL
DORADO...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF LEON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CASSODAY AROUND 550 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 BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL
645 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3783 9706 3763 9658 3794 9656 3807 9656
3808 9681
$$
/EKSTER
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 41 min |
| May 8, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 66 min |
| May 8, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 61 min |
| May 8, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 63 min |
| May 8, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 46 min |
| May 8, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 62 min |
| May 8, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 63 min |
| May 8, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 55 min |
| May 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 62 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.