Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 21, 2005, 3:52 PM CST for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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
- Mar 21, 2005, 3:52 PM CST (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2005, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harper County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 212155 TORICT KSC077-212245- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0003.050321T2152Z-050321T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 352 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 445 PM CST * AT 349 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANCHESTER...OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF ANTHONY. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... ANTHONY...ATTICA AT 345 PM CST...TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF CORWIN. ALSO AT 345 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA RELAYED A SPOTTER REPORT OF A MULTI-VORTEX TORNADO...APPROXIMATELY 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANCHEST IN GRANT COUNTY OKLAHOMA. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LAT...LON 3702 9833 3702 9796 3724 9798 3724 9833 $$ /CARUSO
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 212212 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 412 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005 KSC077-212245- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050321T2245Z/ HARPER KS- 412 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHWESTERN HARPER COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM CST... AT 407 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MANCHESTER...OR 8 MILES SOUTH OF ANTHONY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE... NEAR ANTHONY BY 425 PM CST. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. LAT...LON 3702 9833 3702 9796 3724 9798 3724 9833 $$ /KETCHAM
000 WWUS53 KICT 212230 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 429 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005 KSC077-212245- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050321T2245Z/ HARPER KS- 429 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHWESTERN HARPER COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM CST... AT 425 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF MANCHESTER...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF ANTHONY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE... NEAR ANTHONY BY 440 PM CST. 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. LAT...LON 3702 9833 3702 9796 3724 9798 3724 9833 $$ /KETCHAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 39 min |
| Mar 21, 4:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 63 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.