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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Wichita, KS

May 24, 20114 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 7:30 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 3 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, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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, 7:35 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 80	Holyrood, KS
May 24, 7:47 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	4 Ene Wilson, KS
May 24, 7:50 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 N Wilson, KS	BRIEF ROPE TORNADO REPORTED TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT VIA TRAINED SPOTTER.

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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 1979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -482 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -388 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

046 
WFUS53 KICT 250030
TORICT
KSC009-053-105-167-250100-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0027.110525T0030Z-110525T0100Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE SQUALL LINE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF
  RAIN-WRAPPED TORNADOES IN ADDITION TO WIDESPREAD STRAIGHT LINE WIND
  DAMAGE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  HOLYROOD...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF CLAFLIN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WILSON...ELLSWORTH...KANOPOLIS...LORRAINE...DORRANCE...KANOPOLIS
  STATE PARK...ELLSWORTH AIRPORT AND KANAPOLIS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 3866 9793 3852 9839 3852 9848 3849 9848
      3846 9857 3876 9875 3906 9830
TIME...MOT...LOC 0030Z 232DEG 42KT 3870 9847
HAIL 1.00IN

$$

BILLINGS

1 follow-up statement

435 
WWUS53 KICT 250049
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
749 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

KSC009-167-250059-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-110525T0100Z/
RUSSELL KS-BARTON KS-
749 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BARTON AND SOUTHEASTERN
RUSSELL COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3894 9848 3906 9830 3866 9793 3852 9839
      3852 9842 3852 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 0049Z 232DEG 42KT 3884 9825

$$

KSC053-105-250100-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-110525T0100Z/
LINCOLN KS-ELLSWORTH KS-
749 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ELLSWORTH AND SOUTHWESTERN
LINCOLN COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT...

AT 747 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE SQUALL LINE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS AND BRIEF RAIN-WRAPPED TORNADOES.  THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS
LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF ELLSWORTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KANOPOLIS STATE PARK AND KANAPOLIS.

LAT...LON 3894 9848 3906 9830 3866 9793 3852 9839
      3852 9842 3852 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 0049Z 232DEG 42KT 3884 9825
HAIL 1.00IN

$$

MCGUIRE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	30 min
May 24, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	58 min
May 24, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Reno, Rice	52 min
May 24, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	29 min
May 24, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood, Woodson	59 min
May 24, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery	66 min
May 24, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	57 min
May 24, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Rice	24 min
May 24, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	47 min
May 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	45 min
May 24, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	25 min
May 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	33 min
May 24, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	60 min
May 24, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	63 min
May 24, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	27 min
May 24, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	25 min
May 24, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	24 min
May 24, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	45 min
May 24, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	47 min
May 24, 9:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	10 hr
May 25, 4:26 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more	15 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.