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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2005, 3:57 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 5 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
- Aug 19, 2005, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2005, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Emergency
- Tornado emergency
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 4:04 PM CDT | TORNADO | 8 W Great Bend, KS | KANSAS HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED 1 TORNADO ON THE GROUND. |
| Aug 19, 4:06 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Sw Great Bend, KS | |
| Aug 19, 4:11 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 74 | Great Bend, KS | REPORTED BY AWOS |
| Aug 19, 4:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 74 | Great Bend, KS | REPORTED BY AWOS |
| Aug 19, 4:17 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Great Bend, KS | TRAVELODGE LOST ITS ROOF. 4 PLEX LOST ITS ROOF. 1 NURSING HOME HAD ROOF DAMAGE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 192056 TORICT KSC009-192145- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0040.050819T2057Z-050819T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 357 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 355 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAWNEE ROCK...OR 11 MILES NORTH OF LARNED...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... ALBERT...GREAT BEND...HOISINGTON...PAWNEE ROCK THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3847 9903 3826 9902 3825 9866 3853 9868 $$ SEDLOCK
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 192107 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 407 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 KSC009-192145- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-050819T2145Z/ BARTON KS- 407 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHWESTERN BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM CDT... AT 404 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF DUNDEE AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE... NEAR GREAT BEND BY 420 PM CDT. THE TOWN OF GREAT BEND AIRPORT IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. LAT...LON 3847 9903 3826 9902 3825 9866 3853 9868 $$ BOWMAN
000 WWUS53 KICT 192117 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 416 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 KSC009-192145- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-050819T2145Z/ BARTON KS- 416 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 ...THIS A TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR THE CITY OF GREAT BEND... ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHWESTERN BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM CDT... AT 413 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GREAT BEND. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE... NEAR GREAT BEND BY 425 PM CDT. THE TOWN OF GREAT BEND AIRPORT IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. LAT...LON 3847 9903 3826 9902 3825 9866 3853 9868 $$ BOWMAN
000 WWUS53 KICT 192131 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 430 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 KSC009-192145- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-050819T2145Z/ BARTON KS- 430 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHWESTERN BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM CDT... AT 426 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED ON THE EAST SIDE OF GREAT BEND...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN BARTON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF GREAT BEND. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. LAT...LON 3847 9903 3826 9902 3825 9866 3853 9868 $$ BOWMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 11:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 51 min |
| Aug 19, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 36 min |
Nearby
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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.