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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2004Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 7:18 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min. 4 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, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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, 7:28 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Ssw Douglass, KS	TORNADO ON THE GROUND.
Jun 12, 7:45 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	Douglass, KS
Jun 12, 7:50 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	4 S Rose Hill, KS
Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Douglass, 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 130018
TORICT
KSC015-035-130115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 717 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR OVER
  MULVANE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE
  NEAR DOUGLASS AROUND 745 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BUTLR AND COWLEY 
COUNTIES UNTIL 815 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3752 9713 3741 9713 3740 9694 3754 9695

$$

/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 12, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	65 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.