Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 9:36 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 300236 TORICT KSC173-300330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 936 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 936 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 13 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF HAYSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HAYSVILLE AROUND 945 PM CDT... NEAR DERBY AROUND 950 PM CDT... NEAR MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE AROUND 1000 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THE STORM MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3747 9744 3748 9730 3761 9713 3762 9730 $$ /HOWERTON
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, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 53 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, 9:49 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.