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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 2004, 6:59 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2004, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 2123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 272359 TORICT KSC035-280100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 658 PM CDT FRI AUG 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 658 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 22 MILES NORTH OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR JUST EAST OF UDALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF COWLEY COUNTY... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3741 9713 3734 9712 3736 9691 3746 9700 $$ /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| Aug 27, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.