Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Feb 28, 2007, 6:48 PM CST for Allen County, Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min. 2 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
- Feb 28, 2007, 6:48 PM CST (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2007, 7:13 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Allen County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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, 7:01 PM CST | TORNADO | 6 N Iola, KS | |
| Feb 28, 7:07 PM CST | TORNADO | 7 N Iola, KS | 3 TORNADOES COMBINED INTO 1 WEDGE |
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, 0.8 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 010048 TORICT KSC001-207-010130- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0003.070301T0048Z-070301T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 648 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. NORTHEASTERN WOODSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. * UNTIL 730 PM CST. * AT 646 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO NEAR NEOSHO FALLS...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF IOLA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF TORNADOES. * THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN WOODSON COUNTY. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... GAS...IOLA...LA HARPE...NEOSHO FALLS. 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 3798 9571 3787 9528 3803 9523 3804 9565 $$ SCHRECK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 010056 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 654 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 KSC207-010104- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070301T0130Z/ WOODSON KS- 654 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WOODSON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 654 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3793 9551 3787 9528 3803 9523 3804 9551 $$ KSC001-010130- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070301T0130Z/ ALLEN KS- 654 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN ALLEN COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CST... AT 654 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF IOLA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE... 6 MILES NORTH OF GAS BY 700 PM CST. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3793 9551 3787 9528 3803 9523 3804 9551 $$ BOWMAN
000 WWUS53 KICT 010113 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 713 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 KSC001-010123- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070301T0130Z/ ALLEN KS- 713 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN ALLEN COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 708 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES AGAIN...OR A WARNING ISSUED. LAT...LON 3793 9551 3787 9528 3803 9523 3804 9551 $$ 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, 6:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 19 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.