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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2004, 7:27 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 8 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
- May 12, 2004, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:53 PM CDT | TORNADO | S Attica, KS | |
| May 12, 7:59 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Attica, KS | |
| May 12, 8:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Harper, KS | |
| May 12, 8:02 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 Se Attica, KS | DAMAGE REPORTED IN ATTICA. |
| May 12, 8:02 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 W Harper, KS | |
| May 12, 8:27 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 S Harper, KS | |
| May 12, 8:29 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Ssw Attica, KS | |
| May 12, 8:29 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 S Harper, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 4023 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 18.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 130027 TORICT KSC077-130130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 727 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 727 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 13 MILES EAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHARON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ATTICA AROUND 745 PM CDT... NEAR HARPER AROUND 825 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARPER COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3731 9836 3715 9834 3723 9800 3739 9807 $$ /JAKUB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 65 min |
| May 12, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 53 min |
| May 12, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 57 min |
| May 12, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 53 min |
| May 12, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 53 min |
| May 12, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 64 min |
| May 12, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 64 min |
| May 12, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 59 min |
| May 12, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 58 min |
| May 12, 9:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harper | 6 hr |
| May 12, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 52 min |
| May 12, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 6 hr |
| May 12, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 59 min |
| May 12, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| May 12, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 65 min |
| May 12, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 57 min |
| May 12, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| May 12, 11:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 6 hr |
| May 13, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 63 min |
| May 13, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 55 min |
| May 13, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 61 min |
| May 13, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 60 min |
| May 13, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 59 min |
| May 13, 5:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| May 13, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 55 min |
| May 13, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 65 min |
| May 13, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 47 min |
| May 13, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 59 min |
| May 13, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 54 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.