Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2006, 1:30 PM CST for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2006, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2006, 2:06 PM CST
- In force
- 36 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), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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.
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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KICT 121930
TORICT
KSC133-122030-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0003.060312T1930Z-060312T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
130 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS.
* UNTIL 230 PM CST
* AT 129 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THAYER...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
CHANUTE...GALESBURG...THAYER
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 3761 9552 3745 9551 3747 9532 3772 9524
3771 9550
$$
LAWSON2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KICT 121939
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
139 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
KSC133-122030-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060312T2030Z/
NEOSHO KS-
139 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR WESTERN NEOSHO COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM
CST...
AT 138 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THAYER...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHANUTE...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY NORTHWESTERN NEOSHO
COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF EARLTON.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 3761 9552 3745 9551 3747 9532 3772 9524
3771 9550
$$
BOWMAN000
WWUS53 KICT 122006
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
206 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
KSC133-122016-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060312T2030Z/
NEOSHO KS-
206 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN NEOSHO COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...
AT 203 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 3761 9552 3745 9551 3747 9532 3772 9524
3771 9550
$$
BOWMANThe 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, 1:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 23 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 |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.