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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2003, 6:42 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 9, 2003, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 911 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -509 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 092342 TORICT KSC155-100045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 643 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 643 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF ABBYVILLE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ABBYVILLE AROUND 650 PM CDT... NEAR PARTRIDGE AROUND 655 PM CDT... NEAR ARLINGTON AROUND 700 PM CDT... NEAR PRETTY PRAIRIE AROUND 720 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RENO COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3816 9818 3808 9838 3774 9819 3775 9787 $$ /COX NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 65 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.