Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 1:12 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 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 4, 2005, 1:12 AM CDT (06:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 1:32 AM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Montgomery County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 040611 TORICT KSC019-125-040645- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0017.050604T0612Z-050604T0645Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 112 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. * UNTIL 145 AM CDT * AT 107 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HALE...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEDAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... ELK CITY...HALE THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LAT...LON 3729 9610 3716 9610 3717 9584 3730 9584 $$ DARMOFAL
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 040625 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 125 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 KSC019-125-040645- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-050604T0645Z/ CHAUTAUQUA KS-MONTGOMERY KS- 125 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR WESTERN MONTGOMERY AND NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES UNTIL 145 AM CDT... AT 121 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ELK CITY...OR 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEDAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA AND WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF ELK CITY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3729 9610 3716 9610 3717 9584 3730 9584 $$ DARMOFAL
000 WWUS53 KICT 040632 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 131 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 KSC019-125-040641- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-050604T0645Z/ CHAUTAUQUA KS-MONTGOMERY KS- 131 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN MONTGOMERY AND NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 129 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED INTO NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES AGAIN, OR A WARNING ISSUED. LAT...LON 3729 9610 3716 9610 3717 9584 3730 9584 $$ 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, 11:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 23 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, 1:28 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 |
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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.