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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 13, 2005, 6:14 PM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min. 3 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
- Sep 13, 2005, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2005, 6:51 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Neosho County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 6:22 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Thayer, KS | |
| Sep 13, 6:22 PM CDT | TORNADO | Thayer, KS | POSSIBLE BRIEF TOUCHDOWN |
| Sep 13, 6:24 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Galesburg, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 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 132314 TORICT KSC133-140015- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0047.050913T2314Z-050914T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 614 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THAYER...OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF CHANUTE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... ERIE...GALESBURG...ST. PAUL...THAYER THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LAT...LON 3756 9553 3738 9552 3738 9508 3763 9507 $$ BOWMAN
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 132331 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 630 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 KSC133-140015- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-050914T0015Z/ NEOSHO KS- 630 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHERN NEOSHO COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM CDT... AT 626 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GALESBURG...OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF CHANUTE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE... NEAR ST. PAUL BY 645 PM CDT. THE TOWN OF SOUTH MOUND IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS LAT...LON 3756 9553 3738 9552 3738 9508 3763 9507 $$ ES
000 WWUS53 KICT 132351 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 650 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 KSC133-132359- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-050914T0015Z/ NEOSHO KS- 650 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN NEOSHO COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 648 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...AND NO LONGER POSED AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 784 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NEOSHO COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM CDT. IF YOU LIVE IN NEOSHO COUNTY, REMAIN ALERT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY FURTHER WARNINGS. LAT...LON 3756 9553 3738 9552 3738 9508 3763 9507 $$ 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, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 51 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.