Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 9:09 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 12, 2004, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 130209 TORICT KSC015-035-130300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 910 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS REISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * THE TORNADO WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF COWLEY COUNTY... A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATLANTA MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN REISSUED FOR BUTLER AND COWLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3750 9672 3738 9670 3738 9653 3752 9655 $$ /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 65 min |
| 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, 9:15 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 |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.