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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Wichita, KS

July 9, 2003Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2003, 7:44 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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
Jul 9, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 100044
TORICT
KSC173-100130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
744 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 744 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 21 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 3 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF CHENEY. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

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

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

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

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY
UNTIL 830 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3775 9767 3770 9779 3748 9778 3748 9750

$$

/COX

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	57 min
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, 7:49 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.