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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 7:14 PM CDT for Allen County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allen County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 090014 TORICT KSC001-090115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 713 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF YATES CENTER...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEOSHO FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR IOLA AROUND 730 PM CDT... NEAR GAS AROUND 735 PM CDT... 7 MILES NORTH OF LA HARPE AROUND 740 PM CDT... IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALLEN COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3803 9550 3783 9551 3795 9514 3802 9515 $$ /EKSTER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 60 min |
| May 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 8, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 56 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.