Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2004, 5:29 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 22, 2004, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McPherson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 842 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 222229 SVRICT KSC113-222315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 530 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCPHERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT. * AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CANTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF MCPHERSON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 615 PM CDT... CANTON... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT...WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3845 9747 3832 9749 3829 9738 3847 9737 $$ /DARMOFAL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.