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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2004Wilson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 10:19 PM CDT for Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. 3 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, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2004, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 10:31 PM CDTHAIL 18 Se Fall River, KS
Jun 12, 10:39 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 88Buxton, KS
Jun 12, 10:53 PM CDTHAIL 1Fredonia, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC3 hr
Jun 12, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2004-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3291 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2004-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.0
Supercell composite
12.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 130319
TORICT
KSC205-130415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1020 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1019 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  YATES CENTER...OR 7 MILES WEST OF FREDONIA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
  THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR FREDONIA AROUND 1030 PM CDT...
  NEAR NEODESHA AROUND 1050 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WILSON COUNTY UNTIL
1115 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3758 9593 3742 9595 3739 9563 3756 9560

$$

/ES

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick65 min
Jun 12, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Cowley57 min
Jun 12, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson39 min
Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Cowley65 min
Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWoodson42 min
Jun 12, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Neosho59 min
Jun 12, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline25 min
Jun 12, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Cowley51 min
Jun 12, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningICTElk60 min
Jun 12, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood55 min
Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WarningICTElk60 min
Jun 12, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson66 min
Jun 12, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion67 min
Jun 12, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette, Neosho, Wilson64 min
Jun 12, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno37 min
Jun 12, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler70 min
Jun 12, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Reno61 min
Jun 13, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion59 min
Jun 13, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick68 min
Jun 13, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno64 min
Jun 13, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno60 min
Jun 13, 6:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman55 min
Jun 13, 7:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick6 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.