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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Wichita, KS

June 1, 2011Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2011, 8:46 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 1, 2011, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2011, 9:12 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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.

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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.

096 
WFUS53 KICT 020146
TORICT
KSC167-020230-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0035.110602T0146Z-110602T0230Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 842 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NATOMA...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  RUSSELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

  AT 845 PM A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR PARADISE. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PARADISE...LURAY AND WALDO.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3913 9863 3898 9876 3905 9903 3913 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0146Z 278DEG 12KT 3912 9900
HAIL 1.50IN

$$

MCGUIRE

1 follow-up statement

380 
WWUS53 KICT 020212
SVSICT

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

KSC167-020222-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-110602T0230Z/
RUSSELL KS-
912 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN
EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3913 9863 3898 9876 3905 9903 3913 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 278DEG 12KT 3911 9889

$$

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, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	53 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, 8:51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.