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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS

March 29, 2007Harper County, Kansas

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2007-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 4:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno29 min

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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.