Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2004, 7:09 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. 3 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
- May 17, 2004, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:17 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 2 N Bunker Hill, KS | |
| May 17, 7:17 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | 2 N Bunker Hill, KS | |
| May 17, 7:36 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 4 N Dorrance, 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 17, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 180009 TORICT KSC167-180115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 709 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 8 MILES EAST OF RUSSELL... OR OVER BUNKER HILL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BUNKER HILL AROUND 710 PM CDT... NEAR DORRANCE AROUND 725 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RUSSELL COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3892 9871 3881 9877 3876 9852 3890 9850 $$ /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 67 min |
| May 18, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 61 min |
| May 18, 6:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 44 min |
| May 18, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 53 min |
| May 18, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 72 min |
| May 18, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.