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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 8:19 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Labette County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 090119 TORICT KSC099-090215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 818 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 818 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO OVER DEARING IN SOUTHEAST MONTGOMERY COUNTY. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR EDNA AROUND 840 PM CDT... NEAR ALTAMONT AROUND 850 PM CDT... NEAR OSWEGO AROUND 905 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN ADDITION TO THE POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES...THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LABETTE COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3720 9551 3701 9550 3703 9510 3729 9510 & $$ /WOLF 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, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 46 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.