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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2008, 11:21 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- May 25, 2008, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2008, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Butler County, KS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1426 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 260421 TORICT KSC015-260500- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0034.080526T0421Z-080526T0500Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1121 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. * AT 1115 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AUGUSTA...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EL DORADO...MOVING EAST AT 36 MPH. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... AUGUSTA...EL DORADO...LEON...ROSALIA...TOWANDA. 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3789 9652 3768 9652 3766 9699 3782 9701 TIME...MOT...LOC 0421Z 264DEG 31KT 3773 9687 $$ KRC
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KICT 260427 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1127 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 KSC015-260500- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-080526T0500Z/ BUTLER KS- 1127 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 1121 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO TRACK A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LEON...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF EL DORADO... MOVING EAST AT 36 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF LEON AND ROSALIA. DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE STORMS PATH AND TO SHELTER. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO...GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST RESORT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3789 9652 3768 9652 3766 9699 3782 9701 TIME...MOT...LOC 0427Z 264DEG 31KT 3773 9680 $$ SCHRECK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 30 min |
| May 25, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 43 min |
| May 25, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 91 min |
| May 25, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 51 min |
| May 25, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 45 min |
| May 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 65 min |
| May 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, McPherson, Reno, Rice, Saline | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 59 min |
| May 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson | 19 min |
| May 25, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 36 min |
| May 25, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 85 min |
| May 25, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 55 min |
| May 25, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 31 min |
| May 25, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 55 min |
| May 25, 10:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 8 hr |
| May 25, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 39 min |
| May 25, 10:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, Saline | 8 hr |
| May 25, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 55 min |
| May 25, 11:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 28 min |
| May 25, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Elk, Greenwood | 68 min |
| May 25, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 28 min |
| May 26, 10:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Montgomery, Wilson | 5 hr |
| May 26, 1:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 7 hr |
| May 26, 1:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 5 hr |
| May 26, 1:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Elk | 5 hr |
| May 26, 2:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 43 hr |
| May 26, 2:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 3 days |
| May 26, 2:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 4 days |
| May 26, 2:18 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Lyon | 30 hr |
| May 26, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 38 min |
| May 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 6 more | 30 hr |
| May 26, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 57 min |
| May 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 5 hr |
| May 26, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 57 min |
| May 26, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 51 min |
| May 26, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 55 min |
| May 26, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| May 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 24 min |
| May 26, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 49 min |
| May 26, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 42 min |
| May 26, 5:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 4 hr |
| May 26, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 64 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 57 min |
| May 26, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 4 hr |
| May 26, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 55 min |
| May 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 42 min |
| May 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 61 min |
| May 26, 6:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 5 hr |
| May 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 29 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.