Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2005, 7:22 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2005, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Butler County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:22 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 1 E Whitewater, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 4205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 090022 TORICT KSC015-090100- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0023.050609T0022Z-050609T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 722 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 717 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITEWATER...OR 13 MILES EAST OF NEWTON... AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY... LAT...LON 3803 9706 3801 9714 3794 9714 3798 9703 $$ SEDLOCK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 090034 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 733 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 KSC015-090100- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-050609T0100Z/ BUTLER KS- 733 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF WHITEWATER...OR 13 MILES EAST OF NEWTON...AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF WHITEWATER. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3803 9706 3801 9714 3794 9714 3798 9703 $$ DARMOFAL
000 WWUS53 KICT 090059 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 758 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 KSC015-090108- /O.EXP.KICT.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-050609T0100Z/ BUTLER KS- 758 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT... AT 757 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED FOR NOW. 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 AGAIN. LAT...LON 3803 9706 3801 9714 3794 9714 3798 9703 $$ DARMOFAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Marion | 4 hr |
| Jun 8, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 9:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 4 hr |
| Jun 8, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno, Sedgwick | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 11:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Marion | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 11:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chase | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 5:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Marion | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 6 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.