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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Wichita, KS

May 24, 2011Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 6:43 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 7 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, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2011, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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
May 24, 6:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 70	Pawnee Rock, KS	LAW ENFORCEMENT ESTIMATES 70 MPH WINDS.
May 24, 6:55 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 62	Great Bend Airport, KS
May 24, 7:05 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Great Bend, KS	LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS A ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF OF A BUILDING.
May 24, 7:05 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 70	Hoisington, KS
May 24, 7:10 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	2 E Hoisington, KS
May 24, 7:11 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Susank, KS	AMATEUR RADIO REPORTS SUSTAINED 60 MPH WINDS.
May 24, 7:15 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 75	6 W Claflin, 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
May 24, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 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

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The text

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

668 
WFUS53 KICT 242343
TORICT
KSC009-250015-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0025.110524T2343Z-110525T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
643 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 639 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAWNEE ROCK...OR
  10 MILES NORTH OF LARNED...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GREAT BEND...HOISINGTON...ALBERT...OLMITZ...GREAT BEND ARPT...
  GALATIA AND SUSANK.

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 3867 9904 3869 9903 3870 9882 3846 9858
      3840 9868 3825 9893 3826 9903 3827 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 218DEG 33KT 3835 9903
HAIL 1.50IN

$$

BILLINGS

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, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton	31 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, 6:53 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.