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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 4089 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 050000 TORICT KSC035-050030- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0022.050605T0000Z-050605T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 700 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 659 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARDY...OR 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WINFIELD. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... DEXTER A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LAT...LON 3713 9692 3700 9690 3701 9653 3725 9653 $$ CHANCE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 050017 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 717 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 KSC035-050030- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-050605T0030Z/ COWLEY KS- 717 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEASTERN COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARDY...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WINFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN COWLEY COUNTY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3713 9692 3700 9690 3701 9653 3725 9653 $$ CHANCE
000 WWUS53 KICT 050028 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 728 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 KSC035-050038- /O.EXP.KICT.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-050605T0030Z/ COWLEY KS- 728 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COWLEY COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 726 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES AGAIN, OR A WARNING ISSUED. LAT...LON 3713 9692 3700 9690 3701 9653 3725 9653 $$ CHANCE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 8:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 21 min |
| Jun 4, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 40 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.