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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2005, 4:37 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 min. 2 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, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 4:44 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 N Ellinwood, KS | LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN CHEYENNE BOTTOMS. |
| Aug 19, 4:46 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 3 E Ellinwood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 192137 TORICT KSC009-192200- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0041.050819T2137Z-050819T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 437 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 435 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELLINWOOD...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREAT BEND...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... CLAFLIN...ELLINWOOD THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS TO 60 MPH ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3852 9872 3831 9875 3834 9848 3857 9848 $$ SEDLOCK
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, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 51 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.