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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2011, 8:24 PM CDT for Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 6 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, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2011, 8:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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, 8:26 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 1 W West Wichita, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | East Wichita, KS | AT PAWNEE AND K-15. |
| Jun 9, 8:39 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | 3 W Mid Continent Airpo, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:53 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Clearwater, KS | CITY OF CLEARWATER IS WITHOUT POWER. |
| Jun 9, 8:57 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 N Clearwater, KS | |
| Jun 9, 8:58 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | South Wichita, KS | A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED TREE DAMAGE WITH ONE TREE UP TO THE SIZE OF 9 INCHES KNOCKED OVER AT HERMAN HILL PARK NEAR PAWNEE AND BROADWAY. |
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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.
010 WFUS53 KICT 100124 TORICT KSC015-173-100215- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0042.110610T0124Z-110610T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 824 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHERN SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WICHITA MID CONTINENT AIRPORT...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DOWNTOWN WICHITA...HAYSVILLE...SOUTH WICHITA...EAST WICHITA... MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE...DERBY...MULVANE...ROSE HILL...DOUGLASS AND OAKLAWN. 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 3748 9780 3775 9762 3763 9692 3747 9697 TIME...MOT...LOC 0124Z 279DEG 13KT 3761 9742 HAIL 1.75IN $$
1 follow-up statement
495 WWUS53 KICT 100155 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 855 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2011 KSC015-173-100205- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-110610T0215Z/ SEDGWICK KS-BUTLER KS- 855 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN BUTLER AND SOUTHERN SEDGWICK COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. LAT...LON 3748 9780 3775 9762 3763 9692 3747 9697 TIME...MOT...LOC 0155Z 279DEG 13KT 3759 9728 $$ KETCHAM
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, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 37 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, 8:38 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 |
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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.