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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Feb 27, 2011, 9:28 PM CST for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 17 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
- Feb 27, 2011, 9:28 PM CST (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2011, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Labette County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 2:46 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 472 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
427 WFUS53 KICT 280328 TORICT KSC099-280400- /O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0005.110228T0328Z-110228T0400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 928 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... * UNTIL 1000 PM CST * AT 926 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EDNA...OR 18 MILES EAST OF COFFEYVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BARTLETT AND CHETOPA. 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 3699 9507 3699 9539 3714 9538 3717 9507 TIME...MOT...LOC 0329Z 268DEG 50KT 3704 9526 $$ LAWSON
1 follow-up statement
552 WWUS53 KICT 280345 RRA SVSICT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 945 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 KSC099-280356- /O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110228T0400Z/ LABETTE KS- 945 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LABETTE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3699 9507 3699 9539 3714 9538 3717 9507 TIME...MOT...LOC 0346Z 268DEG 50KT 3705 9496 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 41 min |
| Feb 27, 6:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 52 min |
| Feb 27, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 24 min |
| Feb 27, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 16 min |
| Feb 27, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 20 min |
| Feb 27, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 7:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood, Wilson | 13 min |
| Feb 27, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 31 min |
| Feb 27, 9:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.