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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2003, 7:49 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harper County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 100049 TORICT KSC077-100145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 749 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 749 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NASHVILLE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTH AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ATTICA AROUND 755 PM CDT... 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 HARPER COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3737 9786 3737 9832 3701 9831 3700 9786 $$ /COX NNNN
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, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 46 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.