Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2003, 7:54 PM CST for Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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, 7:54 PM CST (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2003, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 130154 TORICT KSC205-130300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 754 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 754 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE...OR 5 MILES WEST OF ALTOONA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR NEODESHA AROUND 755 PM CST... NEAR ALTOONA AROUND 800 PM CST... AT 750 PM CST A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREDONIA. 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 WILSON COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CST. LAT...LON 3757 9577 3741 9579 3741 9556 3758 9556 & $$ /CARUSO NNNN
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, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 54 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
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003
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.