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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 4:59 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 6 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
- May 24, 2011, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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 24, 5:00 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Great Bend, KS | TRAINED SPOTTER ESTIMATES DIME SIZED HAIL IN GREAT BEND. |
| May 24, 5:02 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Great Bend, KS | AMATEUR RADIO REPORTS SOME QUARTER SIZED HAIL BUT MOSTLY DIME OR SMALLER. |
| May 24, 5:06 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 Nne Seward, KS | TWO FATALITIES OCCURRED WHEN A TORNADO BLEW A TREE ONTO A VAN TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 281. |
| May 24, 5:10 PM CDT | TORNADO | 8 Ene Great Bend, KS | *** 1 INJ *** LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS AN UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF HOUSES DESTROYED AND ONE INJURY. |
| May 24, 5:22 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 S Great Bend, KS | AMATEUR RADIO REPORTS 18 TO 20 INCH DIAMETER TREES DOWN NORTH OF K19 AND 281. |
| May 24, 5:25 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 N Ellinwood, KS | HOUSES DAMAGED |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1043 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
170 WFUS53 KICT 242159 TORICT KSC009-242230- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0022.110524T2159Z-110524T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 459 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 457 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SEWARD...AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GREAT BEND...ELLINWOOD...HOISINGTON AND GREAT BEND ARPT. 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. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 3858 9885 3847 9849 3825 9862 3826 9892 TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 195DEG 38KT 3826 9878 HAIL 2.75IN $$ BILLINGS
1 follow-up statement
103 WWUS53 KICT 242210 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 510 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 KSC009-242230- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-110524T2230Z/ BARTON KS- 510 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CDT... AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ELLINWOOD...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HOISINGTON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3858 9885 3847 9849 3825 9862 3826 9892 TIME...MOT...LOC 2210Z 195DEG 43KT 3841 9862 HAIL 1.75IN $$ MCGUIRE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 24, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 35 min |
| May 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 60 min |
| May 24, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 50 min |
| May 24, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 min |
| May 24, 5:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| May 24, 5:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton | 4 hr |
| May 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 45 min |
| May 24, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 41 min |
| May 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell, Saline | 37 min |
| May 24, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Rice | 66 min |
| May 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood | 60 min |
| May 24, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 52 hr |
| May 24, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 63 min |
| May 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood, Woodson | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 31 min |
| May 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 32 min |
| May 24, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 59 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.