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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Wichita, KS

May 24, 20114 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 8:18 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 27 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 24, 2011, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2011, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Elk County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Wilson County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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.

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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1376 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

395 
WFUS53 KICT 250118
TORICT
KSC019-049-125-205-250145-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0031.110525T0118Z-110525T0145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...
  SOUTHERN WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 813 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HALE...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  SEDAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ELK CITY...NEODESHA...FREDONIA...ALTOONA...SYCAMORE...BUXTON AND
  NEW ALBANY.

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 3723 9610 3761 9594 3749 9552 3746 9553
      3717 9594
TIME...MOT...LOC 0118Z 210DEG 38KT 3729 9596
HAIL <.75IN

$$

COOK

1 follow-up statement

496 
WWUS53 KICT 250142
SVSICT

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

KSC019-049-125-205-250152-
/O.EXP.KICT.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-110525T0145Z/
MONTGOMERY KS-CHAUTAUQUA KS-ELK KS-WILSON KS-
842 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN WILSON...SOUTHEASTERN ELK...
NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA AND NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTIES WILL
EXPIRE AT 845 PM CDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER 
APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3723 9610 3761 9594 3749 9552 3746 9553
      3717 9594
TIME...MOT...LOC 0142Z 210DEG 38KT 3751 9580

$$

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, 7:30 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, 7:36 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, 8:20 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

Nearby

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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.