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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS

June 3, 2005Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2005, 11:07 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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: Jun 3, 2005, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2005, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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
Jun 3, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 506 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 040407
TORICT
KSC035-040430-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0013.050604T0407Z-050604T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1107 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1103 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO JUST
  SOUTHEAST OF DEXTER...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WINFIELD. DOPPLER
  RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN COWLEY COUNTY...

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

LAT...LON 3723 9672 3704 9669 3703 9652 3726 9652

$$

DARMOFAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	25 min
Jun 3, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	42 min
Jun 3, 9:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	6 hr
Jun 3, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	35 min
Jun 3, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	31 min
Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	32 min
Jun 3, 11:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	32 min
Jun 3, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	44 min
Jun 3, 11:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	5 hr
Jun 3, 11:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	33 min
Jun 4, 12:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	19 min
Jun 4, 1:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	20 min
Jun 4, 1:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Montgomery	32 min
Jun 4, 2:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	24 min
Jun 4, 3:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Greenwood	6 hr
Jun 4, 5:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Woodson	3 hr
Jun 4, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	40 min
Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase	51 min
Jun 4, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	61 min
Jun 4, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood	50 min
Jun 4, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	61 min
Jun 4, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	47 min
Jun 4, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	65 min
Jun 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	28 min
Jun 4, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Elk, Greenwood	61 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.