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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 13, 2005, 6:09 PM CDT for Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 13, 2005, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elk County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 6:38 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 N Longton, KS | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 2155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 132309 TORICT KSC049-140000- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0046.050913T2309Z-050914T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 609 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HOWARD...OR 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL DORADO...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... ELK FALLS...HOWARD...LONGTON...MOLINE THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LAT...LON 3755 9642 3735 9640 3733 9596 3760 9597 $$ BOWMAN
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 132320 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 620 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 KSC049-140000- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0046.000000T0000Z-050914T0000Z/ ELK KS- 620 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR ELK COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HOWARD...OR 39 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL DORADO... AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF ELK COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF HOWARD. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS LAT...LON 3755 9642 3735 9640 3733 9596 3760 9597 $$ ES
000 WWUS53 KICT 132344 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 643 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 KSC049-140000- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0046.000000T0000Z-050914T0000Z/ ELK KS- 643 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR ELK COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 639 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF LONGTON...OR 38 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF ELK COUNTY. 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 3755 9642 3735 9640 3733 9596 3760 9597 $$ ES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 50 min |
| Sep 13, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 56 min |
| Sep 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 36 min |
| Sep 13, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 60 min |
| Sep 13, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 64 min |
| Sep 13, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 45 min |
| Sep 13, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 58 min |
| Sep 13, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 51 min |
| Sep 13, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 37 min |
| Sep 13, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 40 min |
| Sep 13, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 50 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.