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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Wichita, KS

May 19, 2011Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2011, 5:42 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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 19, 2011, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2011, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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
May 19, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -348 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

777 
WFUS53 KICT 192242
TORICT
KSC105-192315-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0016.110519T2242Z-110519T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
542 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 536 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF SYLVAN GROVE...OR 8 MILES WEST OF LINCOLN. DOPPLER   
RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS REPLACES 
TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LINCOLN...BARNARD AND BEVERLY.

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.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3922 9793 3912 9792 3902 9793 3892 9848
      3911 9848 3923 9824 3923 9794
TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 241DEG 16KT 3906 9827
HAIL 1.50IN

$$

DUNTEN

1 follow-up statement

465 
WWUS53 KICT 192305
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
605 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

KSC105-192315-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-110519T2315Z/
LINCOLN KS-
605 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 615
PM CDT...

AT 604 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LINCOLN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LINCOLN...BARNARD AND BEVERLY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 3922 9793 3912 9792 3902 9793 3892 9848
      3911 9848 3923 9824 3923 9794
TIME...MOT...LOC 2305Z 240DEG 16KT 3909 9819
HAIL 1.75IN

$$

BILLINGS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	44 min
May 19, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	59 min
May 19, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	32 min
May 19, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	43 min
May 19, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	30 min
May 19, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	54 min
May 19, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	34 min
May 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Russell	37 min
May 19, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	26 min
May 19, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice	40 min
May 19, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	62 min
May 19, 6:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	6 hr
May 19, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	18 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.