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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 6:43 PM CDT for Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 082343 TORICT KSC207-090045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 642 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WOODSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 642 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EUREKA...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEVERY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR TORONTO AROUND 700 PM CDT... NEAR YATES CENTER AROUND 710 PM CDT... NEAR NEOSHO FALLS AROUND 730 PM CDT... THIS STORM HAD A HISOTRY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO IN GREENWOOD COUNTY. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WOODSON COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3802 9593 3774 9594 3781 9562 3803 9554 $$ /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, 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 |
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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.