Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2003, 11:27 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 15, 2003, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 160427 TORICT KSC053-159-160500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1125 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 8 MILES WEST OF LYONS...OR OVER CHASE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUSHTON AROUND 1130 PM CDT... 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLYROOD AROUND 1135 PM CDT... NEAR GENESEO AROUND 1140 PM CDT... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANAPOLIS STATE PARK AROUND 1150 PM CDT... NEAR ELLSWORTH AROUND 1155 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR RICE COUNTY. 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 ELLSWORTH AND RICE COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. LAT...LON 3831 9846 3828 9813 3872 9794 3880 9844 $$ /EKSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Apr 16, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 36 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.