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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Wichita, KS

May 5, 2007Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas

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.

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 5, 2:27 AM CDTFUNNEL CLOUD4 N Geneseo, KSOBSERVER REPORTING A POSSIBLE FUNNEL.
May 5, 2:49 AM CDTTSTM WND GST 605 Ese Ellsworth, KS
May 5, 2:55 AM CDTTSTM WND GST 604 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 5, 1:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 164 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton54 min
May 4, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell40 min
May 4, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln27 min
May 4, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell31 min
May 5, 12:20 AM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Rice55 min
May 5, 12:38 AM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton37 min
May 5, 1:07 AM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Russell53 min
May 5, 1:12 AM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Rice33 min
May 5, 1:49 AM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Rice56 min
May 5, 2:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Saline64 min
May 5, 3:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline55 min
May 5, 3:59 AM CDTWind AdvisoryICTBarton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 8 more15 hr
May 5, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell52 min
May 5, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Reno, Rice29 min
May 5, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Rice44 min
May 5, 6:33 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyICTBarton42 min
May 5, 6:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTBarton9 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.