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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2005, 6:26 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 4 reports 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
- Jul 3, 2005, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2005, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 10 E Pretty Prairie, KS | *** 6 INJ *** 6 MINOR INJURIES REPORTED BY EMERGENCY MANGAGEMENT AT CHENEY LAKE. NWS RECEIVED REPORT AROUND 930 PM. HOWEVER, AFTER TALKING TO OFFICIALS, LOOKING AT RADAR DATA AND GOING BACK OVER PATHCAST TIMES IN WARNINGS, ESTIMATED TIME OF OCCURANCE WAS AROUN |
| Jul 3, 6:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 E Pretty Prairie, KS | SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ESTIMATED AROUND 80 MPH LEVELED A MOBILE HOME. TIME IS AN APPROXIMATION BASED ON NEARBY EVENTS. |
| Jul 3, 6:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 80 | Haven, KS | ESTIMATED 80 MPH WIND GUSTS |
| Jul 3, 6:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | Haven, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 586 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 032327 TORICT KSC155-040000- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0038.050703T2326Z-050704T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 626 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS VERY DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF HAVEN...OR 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF KINGMAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... HAVEN...PRETTY PRAIRIE THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW VERY LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3793 9796 3773 9806 3773 9771 3791 9771 $$ JAKUB
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KICT 032355 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 655 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 KSC155-040005- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-050704T0000Z/ RENO KS- 655 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN RENO COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 653 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE EITHER WEAKENED OR MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES AGAIN, OR A WARNING ISSUED. LAT...LON 3793 9796 3773 9806 3773 9771 3791 9771 $$ DARMOFAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 27 min |
| Jul 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 15 min |
| Jul 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.