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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 2006, 4:16 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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
- Sep 21, 2006, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2006, 4:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lincoln County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 21, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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 212116
TORICT
KSC105-169-212200-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0039.060921T2116Z-060921T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
416 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT.
* AT 413 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GLENDALE...OR 13 MILES WEST OF SALINA...
MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
GLENDALE.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3878 9796 3877 9772 3896 9768 3896 9792
3901 9792 3902 9796
$$
CARUSO1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KICT 212137
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
436 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
KSC105-169-212146-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-060921T2200Z/
LINCOLN KS-SALINE KS-
436 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN SALINE AND SOUTHEASTERN
LINCOLN COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
AT 434 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE
AREA...AND NO LONGER POSED AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3878 9796 3877 9772 3896 9768 3896 9792
3901 9792 3902 9796
$$
JAKUBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 4:04 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 15 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Saline | 44 min |
| Sep 21, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 19 min |
| Sep 21, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion | 29 min |
| Sep 21, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.