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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2003, 7:18 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 100018 TORICT KSC095-100115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 718 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 718 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 24 MILES EAST OF PRATT...OR OVER PENALOSA. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 10 MILES WEST OF KINGMAN AROUND 730 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 KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3771 9812 3772 9842 3740 9839 3739 9804 $$ /COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 65 min |
| Jul 9, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 66 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.