Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 7:10 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 7:13 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 E Mulvane, KS | TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT 127TH AND 119TH. |
| Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Mulvane, KS | |
| Jun 12, 7:28 PM CDT | TORNADO | Mulvane, KS | TORNADO ON THE GROUND 1/4 MILES SOUTH OF K-15 AND ROCK RD |
| Jun 12, 7:32 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 E Mulvane, KS | LARGE TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT THE 4 CORNER AREA. |
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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 4355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1343 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 17.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 130010 TORICT KSC173-130115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 710 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS REISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR OVER MULVANE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF SEDGWICK COUNTY... THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM THAT HAS PRODUCED SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN REISSUED FOR UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY. LAT...LON 3753 9729 3748 9728 3748 9716 3754 9716 $$ /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 25 min |
| Jun 12, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 67 min |
| Jun 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho, Wilson | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 70 min |
| Jun 12, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick | 6 hr |
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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.