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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS

May 12, 2004Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2004, 9:11 PM CDT for Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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: May 12, 2004, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Harper County, KS, Sumner County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 12, 9:12 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 S Danville, 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
May 12, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4023 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 18.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KICT 130211
TORICT
KSC077-191-130315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
910 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 910 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO 5   
MILES EAST OF HARPER. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST 
AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE
  NEAR ARGONIA AROUND 930 PM CDT...
  NEAR CONWAY SPRINGS AROUND 950 PM CDT...

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER AND HARPER
COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3731 9797 3720 9793 3727 9751 3743 9763

&

$$

/JAKUB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper	63 min
May 12, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	65 min
May 12, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	53 min
May 12, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	57 min
May 12, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	53 min
May 12, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper	53 min
May 12, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Marion	64 min
May 12, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	59 min
May 12, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	58 min
May 12, 9:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harper	6 hr
May 12, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	52 min
May 12, 10:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman	6 hr
May 12, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	59 min
May 12, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	54 min
May 12, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	65 min
May 12, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	57 min
May 12, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	57 min
May 12, 11:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	6 hr
May 13, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	63 min
May 13, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	55 min
May 13, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	61 min
May 13, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	60 min
May 13, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	59 min
May 13, 5:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	6 hr
May 13, 6:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	55 min
May 13, 8:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	65 min
May 13, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	47 min
May 13, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	59 min
May 13, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	54 min

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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.