Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 7:59 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1898 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 17.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 090059 TORICT KSC125-090145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 759 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 759 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 16 MILES WEST OF COFFEYVILLE...OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CANEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAVANA AROUND 800 PM CDT... NEAR TYRO AROUND 805 PM CDT... NEAR DEARING AROUND 815 PM CDT... NEAR COFFEYVILLE AROUND 820 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. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3712 9595 3701 9595 3701 9560 3726 9561 $$ /EKSTER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 61 min |
| May 8, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 60 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.