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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Wichita, KS

July 7, 2004Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2004, 6:11 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 6 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, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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, 6:17 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 65	N Waldo, KS
Jul 7, 6:32 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 70	5 Sse Luray, KS
Jul 7, 6:32 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	5 Sse Luray, KS
Jul 7, 6:34 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	2 S Luray, KS
Jul 7, 7:03 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 Sw Luray, KS
Jul 7, 7:04 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Ese Waldo, KS	TORNADO ON THE GROUND AND MOVING TO THE SOUTH.

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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 072311
TORICT
KSC167-080015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
610 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 610 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES NORTH OF RUSSELL...OR NEAR WALDO.    
  THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* AT 610 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR     
  WALDO. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR LURAY AROUND 630 PM CDT...

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

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

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RUSSELL COUNTY
UNTIL 715 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3913 9871 3912 9890 3893 9876 3903 9854

&

$$

/JAKUB

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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, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	67 min
Jul 7, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	65 min
Jul 7, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	59 min

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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.