Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 12:40 AM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- May 27, 2004, 12:40 AM CDT (05:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Neosho County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1669 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 270540 TORICT KSC133-270615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1240 AM CDT THU MAY 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 115 AM CDT * AT 1240 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 18 MILES EAST OF CHANUTE...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALNUT...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NEOSHO COUNTY UNTIL 115 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3772 9524 3766 9524 3761 9510 3772 9510 $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 40 min |
| May 26, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 62 min |
| May 26, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 40 min |
| May 26, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 44 min |
| May 27, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 53 min |
| May 27, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 44 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.