Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2004, 8:36 PM CDT for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barton County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8:44 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 N Susank, KS | TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT 194TH AND MICHALF ROAD. |
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, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 080136 TORICT KSC009-167-080230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 835 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 835 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUSSELL...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DORRANCE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * DOPPLER RADAR ALSO SHOWS ANOTHER TORNADIC STORM NEAR THE CITY OF GORHAM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR SUSANK AROUND 905 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RUSSELL AND BARTON COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3884 9871 3878 9886 3857 9876 3862 9851 $$ /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, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 53 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 |
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.