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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 2004, 8:14 PM CDT for Sumner 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, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 697 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 280114 TORICT KSC191-280215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 814 PM CDT FRI AUG 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF WELLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WELLINGTON AROUND 825 PM CDT... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUDS AND TORNADOES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3719 9752 3713 9743 3720 9726 3733 9736 $$ /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| Aug 27, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 56 min |
| Aug 27, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| Aug 27, 8:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 67 min |
| Aug 27, 8:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 56 min |
| Aug 27, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 38 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.