Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2004, 5:38 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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
- Jul 7, 2004, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 5:48 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 2 Nw Lincoln, KS | |
| Jul 7, 5:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 Se Lincoln, KS | REPORTED BY KSN WEATHER SPOTTER. |
| Jul 7, 5:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 5 Nne Lincoln, KS | |
| Jul 7, 6:04 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | 1 N Lincoln, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 072238 TORICT KSC105-072345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 538 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 33 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALINA...OR OVER LINCOLN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BEVERLY AROUND 605 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3908 9825 3891 9819 3897 9794 3918 9795 $$ /JAKUB NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 59 min |
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.