Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT for Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elk County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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.
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 |
| Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 130315 TORICT KSC049-130415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1015 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS REISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1015 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEDAN...OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOLINE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR MOLINE AROUND 1020 PM CDT... NEAR HOWARD AROUND 1025 PM CDT... NEAR ELK FALLS AROUND 1035 PM CDT... NEAR LONGTON AROUND 1050 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN REISSUED FOR ELK COUNTY UNTIL 1115 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3750 9636 3736 9635 3734 9598 3752 9599 $$ /ES
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, 9:09 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, 10:19 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.