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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2003, 5:54 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 192254 TORICT KSC191-192330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 553 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 553 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINFIELD...OR 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH HAVEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF SUMNER COUNTY... 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. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3711 9742 3701 9724 3718 9716 3737 9723 $$ /EKSTER NNNN
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, 7:38 AM CDT | Tornado 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, 5:59 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.