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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS

April 19, 2003Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2003, 7:38 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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 19, 2003, 7:38 AM CDT (12:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2003, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chautauqua County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:39 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
Apr 19, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 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 191238
TORICT
KSC019-191315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
738 AM CDT SAT APR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 AM CDT

* AT 738 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 11 MILES WEST OF SEDAN...
  OR 7 MILES EAST OF CEDAR VALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS
  STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR SEDAN AROUND 750 AM CDT...

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

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

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
UNTIL 815 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3719 9634 3709 9623 3724 9599 3729 9611

$$

/DARMOFAL

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	60 min
Apr 19, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	62 min
Apr 19, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	38 min
Apr 19, 7:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	37 min
Apr 19, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	36 min
Apr 19, 8:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	35 min
Apr 19, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	54 min
Apr 19, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	48 min
Apr 19, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	59 min
Apr 19, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	79 min
Apr 19, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	31 min
Apr 19, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	66 min
Apr 19, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	66 min
Apr 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	45 min
Apr 19, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Greenwood	50 min
Apr 19, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	36 min
Apr 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	61 min
Apr 19, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	55 min
Apr 19, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Montgomery	47 min
Apr 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	30 min
Apr 19, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette	50 min
Apr 19, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	43 min
Apr 19, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	35 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.