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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2008Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 12, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2008, 6:28 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Marion County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 3:06 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 281 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KICT 122300
TORICT
KSC115-122345-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0053.080612T2300Z-080612T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
600 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MARION COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT.

* AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLORENCE...OR 11
  MILES SOUTH OF MARION...MOVING EAST AT 29 MPH.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  FLORENCE...MARION.

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 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3817 9710 3829 9710 3845 9692 3846 9681
      3844 9681 3834 9681 3834 9684 3815 9684
TIME...MOT...LOC 2300Z 250DEG 26KT 3820 9703

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KICT 122310
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
610 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008

KSC115-122345-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-080612T2345Z/
MARION KS-
610 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN MARION COUNTY
UNTIL 645 PM CDT...

AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO 
TRACK A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS 
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FLORENCE...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF 
MARION...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN
MARION COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF FLORENCE.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3816 9690 3816 9701 3834 9704 3845 9692
      3846 9681 3834 9681 3834 9684 3815 9684
TIME...MOT...LOC 2310Z 250DEG 26KT 3822 9694

$$

SCHRECK

000 
WWUS53 KICT 122328
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
628 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008

KSC115-122338-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-080612T2345Z/
MARION KS-
628 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN MARION COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

AT 625 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE EITHER WEAKENED OR
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 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3816 9690 3816 9701 3834 9704 3845 9692
      3846 9681 3834 9681 3834 9684 3815 9684
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 250DEG 26KT 3826 9678

$$

SCHRECK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	61 min
Jun 11, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	59 min
Jun 11, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	54 min
Jun 11, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton	52 min
Jun 11, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	44 min
Jun 11, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	57 min
Jun 11, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	57 min
Jun 11, 8:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	5 hr
Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Saline	41 min
Jun 11, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	57 min
Jun 11, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	35 min
Jun 11, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	57 min
Jun 11, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Saline	28 min
Jun 11, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice	42 min
Jun 11, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	39 min
Jun 11, 11:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	5 hr
Jun 11, 11:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	12 hr
Jun 12, 12:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	18 hr
Jun 12, 3:10 AM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 8 more	33 hr
Jun 12, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	28 min
Jun 12, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase	64 min
Jun 12, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	56 min
Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chase	4 hr
Jun 12, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase	57 min
Jun 12, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion	64 min
Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Sedgwick	63 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.