Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2011, 7:53 PM CDT for Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min. 19 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 9, 2011, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2011, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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 9, 7:58 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 59 | Northeast Wichita And J, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Benton, KS | POWERLINES REPORTED DOWN IN BENTON. CORRECTED TIME...BASED ON RADAR. |
| Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Towanda, KS | POWER LINES REPORTED DOWN IN TOWANDA. CORRECTED TIME BASED ON RADAR. |
| Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Andover, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:02 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Benton, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:04 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 W Andover, KS | DAMAGE TO BACKYARD. FENCE IS BLOWN DOWN. 3-4 INCH TREES SNAPED. |
| Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | East Wichita, KS | NEAR LINCOLN AND INTERSTATE 135. |
| Jun 9, 8:14 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Se Benton, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:14 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 5 Se Benton, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | East Wichita, KS | NEAR DOUGLAS AND GROVE. |
| Jun 9, 8:16 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | East Wichita, KS | NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR LINCOLN AND INTERSTATE 135. |
| Jun 9, 8:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | El Dorado, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:27 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | El Dorado, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:28 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Augusta, KS | 2 FOOT DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN. CORRECTED TIME BASED ON RADAR. |
| Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | East Wichita, KS | AT PAWNEE AND K-15. |
| Jun 9, 8:32 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 1 Sse El Dorado, KS | LARGE TREE BRANCH ACROSS A ROADWAY. |
| Jun 9, 8:33 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 75 | 1 W El Dorado, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:34 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | El Dorado, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:34 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 75 | El Dorado, KS | SPOTTER REPORTED 75 MPH WINDS JUST WEST OF EL DORADO. |
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 9, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
509 WFUS53 KICT 100053 TORICT KSC015-173-100130- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0041.110610T0053Z-110610T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 753 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 748 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTHEAST WICHITA...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EL DORADO...ANDOVER...TOWANDA...AUGUSTA AND BENTON. 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 3769 9737 3791 9732 3792 9681 3760 9685 TIME...MOT...LOC 0054Z 282DEG 23KT 3773 9718 HAIL 1.75IN $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, Marion | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 42 min |
| Jun 9, 8:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick, Sumner | 65 min |
| Jun 9, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk, Sedgwick, Sumner | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 9:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson | 56 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2011Every tornado warning in 2011Tornadoes in 2011
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.