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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2011, 8:51 PM CDT for Barton County, Ellsworth County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min. 7 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
- Aug 9, 2011, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2011, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 9:10 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Holyrood, KS | CORRECTED FOR TIME. BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED NEAR HOLYROOD. |
| Aug 9, 9:11 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Holyrood, KS | |
| Aug 9, 9:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Holyrood, KS | |
| Aug 9, 9:20 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Holyrood, KS | BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED NEAR HOLYROOD. |
| Aug 9, 9:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Holyrood, KS | |
| Aug 9, 9:23 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Holyrood, KS | |
| Aug 9, 9:23 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Holyrood, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 548 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
295
WFUS53 KICT 100151
TORICT
KSC009-053-167-100215-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0045.110810T0151Z-110810T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
851 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHWESTERN ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 850 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILSON...OR 18
MILES WEST OF ELLSWORTH...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOLYROOD AND LORRAINE.
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 3873 9825 3853 9820 3852 9851 3867 9872
3883 9862
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 295DEG 28KT 3871 9855
HAIL 2.50IN
$$
ES2 follow-up statements
599 WWUS53 KICT 100202 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 902 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011 KSC167-100212- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110810T0215Z/ RUSSELL KS- 902 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3867 9872 3873 9825 3853 9820 3852 9851 TIME...MOT...LOC 0202Z 303DEG 29KT 3864 9847 $$ KSC009-053-100215- /O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110810T0215Z/ BARTON KS-ELLSWORTH KS- 902 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN ELLSWORTH AND NORTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 859 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLYROOD...OR 16 MILES WEST OF ELLSWORTH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR... HOLYROOD AROUND 910 PM CDT. LORRAINE AROUND 915 PM CDT. 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 3867 9872 3873 9825 3853 9820 3852 9851 TIME...MOT...LOC 0202Z 303DEG 29KT 3864 9847 HAIL 2.50IN $$ LAWSON
544 WWUS53 KICT 100217 SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 917 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011 KSC009-053-100227- /O.EXP.KICT.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110810T0215Z/ BARTON KS-ELLSWORTH KS- 917 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ELLSWORTH AND NORTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. LAT...LON 3867 9872 3873 9825 3853 9820 3852 9851 TIME...MOT...LOC 0202Z 303DEG 29KT 3864 9847 $$ LAWSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno, Rice | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, McPherson, Reno, Sedgwick | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 53 min |
| Aug 9, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 51 min |
| Aug 10, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 40 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.