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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2004Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 6:36 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 7 reports 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: Jun 12, 2004, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 39 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 23:38 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 12, 6:44 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Haysville, KS
Jun 12, 6:47 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	8 S Haysville, KS	KAKE TV STORM CHASER REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD.
Jun 12, 7:00 PM CDT	HAIL 1	4 S Derby, KS
Jun 12, 7:10 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	4 S Derby, KS
Jun 12, 7:11 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	4 S Derby, KS
Jun 12, 7:12 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 W Mulvane, KS	TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST WEST OF MULVANE.
Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT	HAIL 2.75	Mulvane, 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
Jun 12, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 2061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 122336
TORICT
KSC173-130015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
636 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 636 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 14 MILES NORTH OF
  WELLINGTON...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLEARWATER...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR HAYSVILLE AROUND 650 PM CDT...
  NEAR DERBY AROUND 700 PM CDT...

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

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY
UNTIL 715 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3753 9744 3743 9739 3749 9720 3761 9727

$$

/ES

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Elk	52 min
Jun 11, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	58 min
Jun 11, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	61 min
Jun 11, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	61 min
Jun 12, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	63 min
Jun 12, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	58 min
Jun 12, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	72 min
Jun 12, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	80 min
Jun 12, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	53 min
Jun 12, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	53 min
Jun 12, 4:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	6 hr
Jun 12, 10:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	55 min
Jun 12, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	62 min
Jun 12, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Reno	60 min
Jun 12, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Reno	59 min
Jun 12, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	61 min
Jun 12, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	54 min
Jun 12, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	27 min
Jun 12, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	39 min
Jun 12, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	64 min
Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	58 min
Jun 12, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	40 min
Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	63 min

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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.