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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 5:57 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 082257 TORICT KSC073-090000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 556 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 15 MILES WEST OF EUREKA... OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF CASSODAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR THRALL AT 615 PM CDT... NEAR MADISON AROUND 630 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3804 9650 3778 9649 3815 9599 3814 9614 $$ /EKSTER NNNN
The 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, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 67 min |
| May 8, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 62 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 |
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.