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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2005, 4:56 PM CDT for Barton County, Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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, 5:05 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 S Bushton, KS | RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO |
| Aug 19, 5:09 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 Sw Geneseo, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 192156
TORICT
KSC009-053-159-192230-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0042.050819T2156Z-050819T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
456 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
EASTERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
SOUTHERN ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 452 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHASE...OR 24 MILES SOUTH OF ELLSWORTH...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
BUSHTON...CLAFLIN...GENESEO...HOLYROOD...LITTLE RIVER...LORRAINE...
KANOPOLIS STATE PARK
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
OTHER STRONG CIRCULATIONS WERE NOTED ON RADAR IN EXTREME EASTERN
BARTON COUNTY NORTHEAST OF ELLINWOOD.
LAT...LON 3851 9858 3836 9857 3837 9792 3852 9793
3869 9793 3870 9847 3862 9848
$$
SEDLOCK2 follow-up statements
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WWUS53 KICT 192216
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
514 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005
KSC009-053-159-192230-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050819T2230Z/
ELLSWORTH KS-BARTON KS-RICE KS-
514 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN RICE...EASTERN BARTON AND
SOUTHERN ELLSWORTH COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CDT...
AT 509 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO4 MILES
SOUTH OF GENESEO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GENESEO...OR 19
MILES SOUTH OF ELLSWORTH...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER
TORNADO WAS REPORTED 1 MILE SOUTH OF BUSHTON AT 504 PM. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH
THE TORNADO WILL BE...
5 MILES NORTH OF LITTLE RIVER BY 520 PM CDT.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
LAT...LON 3851 9858 3836 9857 3837 9792 3852 9793
3869 9793 3870 9847 3862 9848
$$
BOWMAN000
WWUS53 KICT 192223
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
523 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005
KSC009-192233-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050819T2230Z/
BARTON KS-
523 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BARTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
AT 518 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE
AREA...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3869 9794 3838 9793 3837 9847 3865 9847
3866 9846 3870 9846
$$
KSC053-159-192230-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050819T2230Z/
ELLSWORTH KS-RICE KS-
523 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN RICE AND SOUTHERN
ELLSWORTH COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CDT...
AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GENESEO...OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF ELLSWORTH...AND
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN RICE AND
SOUTHERN ELLSWORTH COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF GENESEO.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
LAT...LON 3869 9794 3838 9793 3837 9847 3865 9847
3866 9846 3870 9846
$$
BOWMANThe 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, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 63 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 |
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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.