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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2003, 8:55 PM CST for Labette County, Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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, 8:55 PM CST (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2003, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Labette County, KS, Neosho County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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 |
| Mar 12, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 130255 TORICT KSC099-133-130400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 854 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CST * AT 854 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARSONS...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF GALESBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR PARSONS AROUND 905 PM CST... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 NEOSHO AND LABETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CST. LAT...LON 3748 9545 3729 9548 3725 9512 3748 9510 $$ /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, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 66 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, 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
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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.