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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS

May 1, 2008Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2008, 8:56 PM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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: May 1, 2008, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2008, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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
May 1, 9:14 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	1 Sw Chanute, KS

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
Jan 7, 1:52 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	146 days
May 1, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 3122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 020156
TORICT
KSC133-020230-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0007.080502T0156Z-080502T0230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
856 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT.

* AT 851 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE AIRPORT...
  OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE...MOVING EAST AT 27 MPH.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  CHANUTE...EARLTON...CHANUTE AIRPORT.

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 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3764 9518 3757 9552 3773 9552 3773 9523
      3772 9519 3773 9518 3773 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 255DEG 23KT 3763 9553

$$

DARMOFAL

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KICT 020211
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
911 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008

KSC133-020230-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080502T0230Z/
NEOSHO KS-
911 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN NEOSHO COUNTY
UNTIL 930 PM CDT...

AT 909 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
TRACK A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS 
POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CHANUTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 34 
MPH.

THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN NEOSHO
COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF CHANUTE AND CHANUTE AIRPORT.

THE STORMS THIS EVENING HAVE PRODUCED SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL 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 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3764 9518 3757 9552 3773 9552 3773 9523
      3772 9519 3773 9518 3773 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0211Z 245DEG 30KT 3770 9541

$$

DARMOFAL

000 
WWUS53 KICT 020229
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
928 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008

KSC133-020238-
/O.EXP.KICT.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080502T0230Z/
NEOSHO KS-
928 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN NEOSHO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 930
PM CDT...

AT 923 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.

HOWEVER...ANOTHER SEVERE AND POSSIBLY TORNADIC STORM WAS OVER WILSON 
COUNTY. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3764 9518 3757 9552 3773 9552 3773 9523
      3772 9519 3773 9518 3773 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0228Z 245DEG 30KT 3776 9525

$$

DARMOFAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Wilson	41 min
May 1, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Wilson, Woodson	37 min
May 1, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood	57 min
May 1, 7:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood, Wilson	6 hr
May 1, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Wilson	38 min
May 1, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	60 min
May 1, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	52 min
May 1, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	52 min
May 1, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson	46 min
May 1, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Wilson	34 min
May 1, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	45 min
May 1, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Allen	45 min
May 1, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Wilson	38 min
May 1, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood, Woodson	44 min
May 1, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho	37 min
May 1, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Allen	32 min
May 1, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	23 min
May 1, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Allen	30 min
May 1, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick	57 min
May 1, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner	56 min
May 1, 10:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Wilson, Woodson	4 hr
May 1, 11:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	2 hr
May 1, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	55 min
May 1, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Greenwood, Sedgwick, Sumner	60 min
May 1, 11:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase	56 min
May 1, 11:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Greenwood	41 min
May 1, 11:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	2 hr
May 2, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood, Woodson	42 min
May 2, 12:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson	4 hr
May 2, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	39 min
May 2, 2:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	3 hr
May 2, 4:04 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Barton, Butler, Chase, Ellsworth, Greenwood, Harper and 11 more	18 hr

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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.