Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2007, 2:03 AM CDT for Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- May 5, 2007, 2:03 AM CDT (07:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2007, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:27 AM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 4 N Geneseo, KS | OBSERVER REPORTING A POSSIBLE FUNNEL. |
| May 5, 2:49 AM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 5 Ese Ellsworth, KS | |
| May 5, 2:55 AM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 4 S Geneseo, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 1:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 050703 TORICT KSC053-159-050745- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0014.070505T0703Z-070505T0745Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 203 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS. EASTERN ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 245 AM CDT. * AT 158 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FREDERICK...OR 18 MILES SOUTH OF ELLSWORTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... FREDERICK...GENESEO...KANOPOLIS...KANOPOLIS STATE PARK. 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. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3842 9833 3841 9792 3886 9793 3886 9814 $$ KETCHAM
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 050717 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 215 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 KSC053-159-050745- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-070505T0745Z/ ELLSWORTH KS-RICE KS- 215 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN RICE AND EASTERN ELLSWORTH COUNTIES UNTIL 245 AM CDT... AT 211 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF FREDERICK...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF ELLSWORTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE... NEAR KANOPOLIS STATE PARK BY 230 AM CDT. THE TOWN OF KANOPOLIS IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES...AND IN FACT HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NUMEROUS TORNADOES...SOME CAUSING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OVER 80 MPH A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3842 9833 3841 9792 3886 9793 3886 9814 $$ KLEINSASSER
000 WWUS53 KICT 050743 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 243 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 KSC053-159-050753- /O.EXP.KICT.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-070505T0745Z/ ELLSWORTH KS-RICE KS- 243 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN RICE AND EASTERN ELLSWORTH COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 241 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3842 9833 3841 9792 3886 9793 3886 9814 $$ KLEINSASSER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 54 min |
| May 4, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 40 min |
| May 4, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 27 min |
| May 4, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 31 min |
| May 5, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Rice | 55 min |
| May 5, 12:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 37 min |
| May 5, 1:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Russell | 53 min |
| May 5, 1:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Rice | 33 min |
| May 5, 1:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 56 min |
| May 5, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 64 min |
| May 5, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 55 min |
| May 5, 3:59 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 8 more | 15 hr |
| May 5, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Reno, Rice | 29 min |
| May 5, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Rice | 44 min |
| May 5, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 42 min |
| May 5, 6:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Barton | 9 hr |
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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.