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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 7:52 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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
- May 29, 2004, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harper County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 3494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 402 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 7.0
- Supercell composite
- 22.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 300052 TORICT KSC077-300145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 753 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 753 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANTHONY...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARPER. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR DANVILLE AROUND 810 PM CDT... A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARPER COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3722 9798 3717 9796 3721 9781 3736 9782 & $$ /HOWERTON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 55 min |
| May 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 60 min |
| May 29, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 57 min |
| May 29, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 63 min |
| May 29, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 67 min |
| May 29, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 62 min |
| May 29, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| May 29, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| May 29, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Lincoln, Russell | 87 min |
| May 29, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 52 min |
| May 29, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 89 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 64 min |
| May 29, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 48 min |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 86 min |
| May 30, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Saline | 96 min |
| May 30, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 62 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.