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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Wichita, KS

June 1, 2011Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2011, 8:07 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 1, 2011, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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
Jun 1, 8:20 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Nw Barnard, KS	REPORTS OF A POSSIBLE RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO ON THE LINCOLN/MITCHELL COUNTY LINE.

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
Jun 1, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 1251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2375 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

426 
WFUS53 KICT 020107
TORICT
KSC105-020200-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0033.110602T0107Z-110602T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
807 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 805 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HUNTER...OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  LINCOLN...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BARNARD AND ASH GROVE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3922 9844 3923 9794 3922 9793 3906 9793
      3912 9848 3914 9850 3923 9848
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 278DEG 13KT 3920 9836
HAIL 1.75IN

$$

MCGUIRE

1 follow-up statement

594 
WWUS53 KICT 020127
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
827 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011

KSC105-020200-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-110602T0200Z/
LINCOLN KS-
827 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY
UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 824 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUNTER...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST
OF LINCOLN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

IN ADDITION...AT 825 PM STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A RAIN WRAPPED 
TORNADO WITH A STORM NORTH OF BARNARD ALONG THE COUNTY LINE. THIS 
STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL IMPACT NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BARNARD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY HIDE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE
TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3911 9838 3922 9842 3923 9794 3922 9793
      3906 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 0125Z 288DEG 13KT 3915 9828
HAIL 1.75IN

$$

MCGUIRE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	58 min
Jun 1, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	66 min
Jun 1, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	63 min
Jun 1, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	39 min
Jun 1, 8:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	9 hr
Jun 1, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	66 min
Jun 1, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	26 min
Jun 1, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	54 min
Jun 1, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	26 min
Jun 1, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	67 min
Jun 1, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	54 min
Jun 1, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline	42 min
Jun 1, 10:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	12 hr
Jun 1, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	53 min
Jun 1, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	58 min
Jun 1, 10:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	4 days
Jun 1, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	60 min
Jun 1, 11:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	10 hr
Jun 1, 11:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion, Saline	35 min
Jun 1, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	26 min
Jun 2, 12:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	67 hr
Jun 2, 2:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	7 hr
Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more	16 hr
Jun 2, 9:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	6 hr
Jun 2, 9:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	6 hr
Jun 2, 9:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	11 hr
Jun 2, 9:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	5 hr
Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	30 hr
Jun 2, 3:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	6 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.