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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2010, 5:54 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 5 reports 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
- Jun 12, 2010, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2010, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:59 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 61 | Great Bend, KS | REPORT WAS FROM KSN WEATHER LAB. |
| Jun 12, 6:06 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 N Great Bend, KS | EMERGENCY MANAGERS RECEIVED SEVERAL REPORTS OF A TORNADO TOUCHING DOWN AND THEN LIFTING BACK UP. |
| Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 4 Sw Claflin, KS | |
| Jun 12, 6:24 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | 2 N Great Bend, KS | A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED THEIR HUMMER AND OTHER VEHICLES WERE BLOWN OFF THE ROAD AS THEY WERE HEADING NORTH ON 281. |
| Jun 12, 6:32 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 Sw Claflin, KS | ANOTHER BREIF TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED 3 MILES SOUTH AND 2 MILES WEST OF CLAFLIN. NO DEBRIS WAS REPORTED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
916 WFUS53 KICT 122254 TORICT KSC009-122330- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0021.100612T2254Z-100612T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 554 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 552 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR HOISINGTON...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF GREAT BEND. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HOISINGTON AND ELLINWOOD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3863 9864 3832 9850 3832 9882 3849 9890 TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 248DEG 20KT 3845 9875 $$ SCHRECK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:53 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 59 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 6:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 6:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Barton | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 44 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.