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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2011, 8:56 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 1, 2011, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2011, 9:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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, 9:06 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 6 Ssw Sylvan Grove, KS | REPORTED NORTH OF WILSON. |
| Jun 1, 9:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 Sw Sylvan Grove, KS | |
| Jun 1, 9:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 6 Sw Sylvan Grove, KS | DELAYED REPORT. |
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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
572 WFUS53 KICT 020156 TORICT KSC053-105-167-020300- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0036.110602T0156Z-110602T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 856 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... EAST CENTRAL RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 851 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF LUCAS...OR 17 MILES EAST OF RUSSELL...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LINCOLN...SYLVAN GROVE...BEVERLY AND WESTFALL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 3904 9792 3882 9802 3885 9860 3907 9852 TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 295DEG 22KT 3895 9852 HAIL 1.75IN $$ MCGUIRE
1 follow-up statement
275 WWUS53 KICT 020222 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 922 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011 KSC053-105-167-020232- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-110602T0300Z/ RUSSELL KS-LINCOLN KS-ELLSWORTH KS- 922 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN ELLSWORTH...SOUTHERN LINCOLN AND EAST CENTRAL RUSSELL COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. LAT...LON 3904 9792 3882 9802 3885 9860 3907 9852 TIME...MOT...LOC 0222Z 295DEG 22KT 3888 9833 $$ 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, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 54 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.