Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Feb 28, 2007, 6:26 PM CST for Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 19 min. 1 report 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
- Feb 28, 2007, 6:26 PM CST (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2007, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 6:33 PM CST | TORNADO | 12 Ne Yates Center, KS | TWO SMALL ROPES REPORTED ON THE GROUND |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 2552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 010026 TORICT KSC207-010045- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0002.070301T0026Z-070301T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 626 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WOODSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. * UNTIL 645 PM CST. * AT 622 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 12 MILES WEST OF NEOSHO FALLS...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF YATES CENTER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... NEOSHO FALLS. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3794 9584 3791 9551 3804 9551 3804 9587 $$ SCHRECK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 010033 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 632 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 KSC207-010045- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070301T0045Z/ WOODSON KS- 632 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN WOODSON COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CST... AT 630 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF NEOSHO FALLS...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF YATES CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE... NEAR NEOSHO FALLS BY 640 PM CST. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3794 9584 3791 9551 3804 9551 3804 9587 $$ BOWMAN
000 WWUS53 KICT 010039 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 638 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 KSC207-010045- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070301T0045Z/ WOODSON KS- 638 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN WOODSON COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CST... AT 638 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NEOSHO FALLS...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF YATES CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN WOODSON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF NEOSHO FALLS. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3794 9584 3791 9551 3804 9551 3804 9587 $$ BOWMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 34 min |
| Feb 28, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 25 min |
| Feb 28, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 43 min |
| Feb 28, 9:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 20 min |
| Mar 1, 10:26 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Ellsworth, Harvey, Kingman and 8 more | 4 hr |
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.