Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004

Tornado Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS

May 29, 2004Ellsworth County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 11:42 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ellsworth County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 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.

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, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 5801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 300442
TORICT
KSC053-300530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1142 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1142 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  ELLSWORTH...OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF EXIT 225 ON INTERSTATE 70...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
  TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR EXIT 225 ON INTERSTATE 70 AROUND 1145 PM CDT...

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.

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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELLSWORTH COUNTY
UNTIL 1230 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3887 9812 3873 9820 3876 9793 3886 9793

$$

/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, 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, 9:36 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 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

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2004 Every tornado warning in 2004 Tornadoes 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.