Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2007, 5:33 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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
- Mar 29, 2007, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harper County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 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 292233 TORICT KSC077-292300- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0005.070329T2233Z-070329T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 533 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 600 PM CDT. * AT 532 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BLUFF CITY...OR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANTHONY...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... BLUFF CITY...FREEPORT. 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. LAT...LON 3700 9795 3700 9780 3723 9780 3723 9794 $$ KLEINSASSER
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KICT 292244 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 542 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2007 KSC077-292300- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070329T2300Z/ HARPER KS- 542 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN HARPER COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT... AT 540 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BLUFF CITY...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANTHONY...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN HARPER COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF BLUFF CITY AND FREEPORT. SPOTTERS EARLIER REPORTED WEAK ROTATION JUST SOUTH OF BLUFF CITY. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. LAT...LON 3700 9795 3700 9780 3723 9780 3723 9794 $$ KLEINSASSER
000 WWUS53 KICT 292255 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 555 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2007 KSC077-292305- /O.EXP.KICT.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070329T2300Z/ HARPER KS- 555 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HARPER COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 553 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...AND NO LONGER POSED AN IMMEDIATE RISK TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3700 9795 3700 9780 3723 9780 3723 9794 $$ KLEINSASSER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 29 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.