Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2004, 7:52 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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, 7:53 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 S Russell, KS | LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTING A BRIEF TOUCH DOWN. TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST. |
| Jul 7, 8:03 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 E Russell, KS | KSN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A BRIEF TOUCH DOWN AT THE EASTERN EXIT TO THE CITY OF RUSSELL ON INTERSTATE 70. |
| Jul 7, 8:37 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 S Russell, KS | TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT 118TH AND SMOKEY RIVER ROAD. TORNADO MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. |
| Jul 7, 8:50 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 Sse Bunker Hill, KS | CLASSIC CONE SHAPED TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GROUND. |
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 |
| Jul 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2020 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 080052 TORICT KSC167-080145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 751 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 751 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF RUSSELL...OR 9 MILES EAST OF GORHAM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SEVERAL TORNADOES. * THE TORNADO WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF JUST SOUTH OF RUSSELL... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RUSSELL COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3892 9883 3881 9895 3870 9876 3880 9858 $$ /JAKUB NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 11:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Woodson | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 5 hr |
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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.