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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS

March 12, 2003Woodson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2003, 7:25 PM CST for Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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: Mar 12, 2003, 7:25 PM CST (01:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2003, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 50 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), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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
Mar 12, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 704 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 130125
TORICT
KSC207-130215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
724 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOODSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 724 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF YATES
  CENTER...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUFFALO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
  THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF WOODSON COUNTY...

AT 715 PM CST A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 
ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF YATES CENTER. 

THIS EXTENDS THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR WOODSON 
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 815 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3793 9567 3776 9570 3774 9554 3792 9553

&

$$

/CARUSO

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 6:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	54 min
Mar 12, 6:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	49 min
Mar 12, 6:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	56 min
Mar 12, 6:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Woodson	53 min
Mar 12, 6:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	70 min
Mar 12, 7:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	46 min
Mar 12, 7:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Allen	56 min
Mar 12, 7:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	54 min
Mar 12, 7:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Wilson	66 min
Mar 12, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	64 min
Mar 12, 8:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	61 min
Mar 12, 8:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	61 min
Mar 12, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	42 min
Mar 12, 8:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	65 min
Mar 12, 9:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	52 min
Mar 12, 9:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	63 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.