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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Wichita, KS

May 24, 2011Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 7:36 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report 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, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Rice County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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, 7:52 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 80	2 Nnw Lyons, KS	TRAINED SPOTTER ESTIMATES 70 TO 80 MPH WINDS 2 NORTH AND 5 WEST OF LYONS.

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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.

235 
WFUS53 KICT 250036
TORICT
KSC159-250100-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0028.110525T0036Z-110525T0100Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 734 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 NEAR ALDEN...OR 8 MILES
  WEST OF STERLING...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  STERLING...LYONS...ALDEN...CHASE...GENESEO AND LITTLE RIVER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND
WIDESPREAD SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE
TORNADO. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

&&

LAT...LON 3852 9816 3852 9812 3836 9798 3817 9825
      3817 9839 3824 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 0036Z 218DEG 36KT 3822 9834
HAIL 1.00IN

$$

BILLINGS

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, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	30 min
May 24, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	57 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.