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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Wichita, KS

May 10, 2003Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 2:32 AM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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 10, 2003, 2:32 AM CDT (07:32 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 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 10, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -412 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 422 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

019 
WFUS53 KICT 100732
TORICT
KSC015-100830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
232 AM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 330 AM CDT

* AT 232 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 11 MILES EAST OF NEWTON...
  OR OVER ELBING...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A
  TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

LARGE HAIL TO THE GOLFBALLS AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO 
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL
330 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3808 9713 3799 9714 3798 9698 3807 9699

$$

/ES

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	58 min
May 9, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	39 min
May 9, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	30 min
May 10, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	23 min
May 10, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	48 min
May 10, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	55 min
May 10, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	42 min
May 10, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	47 min
May 10, 2:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	52 min
May 10, 2:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	65 min
May 10, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	51 min
May 10, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	52 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.