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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS

March 12, 2006Wilson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2006, 1:17 PM CST for Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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: Mar 12, 2006, 1:17 PM CST (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2006, 1:40 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilson County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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
Mar 12, 1:38 PM CST	HAIL 1.75	10 Sw Chanute, KS
Mar 12, 1:38 PM CST	HAIL 1.75	Benedict, KS	HAIL SHATTERED EVERY WINDOW OUT OF HIS HOUSE AND VEHICLE.
Mar 12, 1:40 PM CST	HAIL 3	6 Sw Chanute, 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
Mar 12, 11:49 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 622 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 826 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KICT 121917
TORICT
KSC205-122000-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0002.060312T1917Z-060312T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
117 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 112 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEODESHA...OR 25 MILES NORTH
  OF COFFEYVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  ALTOONA...NEODESHA

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3740 9587 3739 9565 3740 9553 3767 9554
      3763 9575

$$

LAWSON

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KICT 121923
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
123 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

KSC205-122000-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060312T2000Z/
WILSON KS-
123 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR EASTERN WILSON COUNTY UNTIL 200 PM
CST...

AT 121 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEODESHA...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY SOUTHEASTERN WILSON 
COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF NEODESHA AND ALTOONA.

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 3740 9587 3739 9565 3740 9553 3767 9554
      3763 9575

$$

BOWMAN

000 
WWUS53 KICT 121940
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
140 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

KSC205-121950-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060312T2000Z/
WILSON KS-
140 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN WILSON COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

AT 138 PM CST...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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES AGAIN, OR A WARNING ISSUED.

LAT...LON 3740 9587 3739 9565 3740 9553 3767 9554
      3763 9575

$$

BOWMAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 5:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	42 min
Mar 12, 5:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	38 min
Mar 12, 5:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase	54 min
Mar 12, 7:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	30 min
Mar 12, 7:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	27 min
Mar 12, 12:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	24 min
Mar 12, 12:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	57 min
Mar 12, 12:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood, Woodson	55 min
Mar 12, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	58 min
Mar 12, 12:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery, Wilson	51 min
Mar 12, 1:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	53 min
Mar 12, 1:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	50 min
Mar 12, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho	36 min
Mar 12, 1:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Allen	39 min
Mar 12, 1:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho	17 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.