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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2004, 9:23 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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, 9:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | Olmitz, KS | |
| Jul 7, 9:27 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 S Hoisington, KS | BRIEF TOUCH DOWN OF TORNADO. |
| Jul 7, 9:59 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 N Olmitz, KS | POWER LINES DOWN ALONG HWY 4. |
| Jul 7, 10:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 6 Wsw Great Bend, KS | |
| Jul 7, 10:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 6 Wsw Great Bend, KS | |
| Jul 7, 10:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | 4 Nw Great Bend, 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, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 080223 TORICT KSC009-080315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 922 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 922 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND...OR OVER OLMITZ...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MPH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM. * THE TORNADO WILL BE 7 MILES WEST OF HOISINGTON AROUND 930 PM CDT... NEAR GREAT BEND AROUND 1005 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3861 9882 3859 9902 3827 9901 3828 9864 $$ /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, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 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.