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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wichita, KS

May 8, 2005McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2005, 5:16 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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 8, 2005, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2005, 5:42 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McPherson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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.

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 8, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 83 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 082216
TORICT
KSC113-082300-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0011.050508T2216Z-050508T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
516 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MCPHERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 511 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF WINDOM...OR 7 MILES WEST OF
  MCPHERSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  CANTON...GALVA...MCPHERSON

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3847 9786 3829 9784 3831 9741 3852 9743

$$

/ES

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KICT 082242
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
542 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005

KSC113-082252-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050508T2300Z/
MCPHERSON KS-
542 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL MCPHERSON COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

AT 538 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE EITHER WEAKENED OR
MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE
OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT 
SUNDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3847 9786 3829 9784 3831 9741 3852 9743

$$

/DARMOFAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	55 min
May 8, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	62 min
May 8, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	64 min
May 8, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	32 min
May 8, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Saline	32 min
May 8, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Rice	30 min
May 8, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	20 min
May 8, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Rice	54 min
May 8, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	26 min
May 8, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	42 min
May 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.