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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS

March 27, 2004Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2004, 2:58 PM CST for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 27, 2004, 2:58 PM CST (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2004, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 27, 3:14 PM CST	TORNADO	1 Se Hoisington, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 27, 11:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Mar 27, 1:35 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 1373 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KICT 272058
TORICT
KSC009-272200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
258 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 258 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES WEST OF GREAT
  BEND...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALBERT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
  THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OLMITZ AROUND 320 PM CST...
  NEAR HOISINGTON AROUND 340 PM CST...

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

AT 255 PM CST A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A ROTATING WALL 
CLOUD 7 MILES WEST OF GREAT BEND.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BARTON COUNTY UNTIL
400 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3844 9903 3833 9891 3856 9851 3869 9881

&

$$

/LAWSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 2:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	65 min
Mar 27, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	57 min
Mar 27, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	58 min
Mar 27, 3:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	57 min
Mar 27, 3:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	68 min
Mar 27, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	66 min
Mar 27, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	65 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.