Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2014
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2014, 9:10 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 min. 5 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
- May 11, 2014, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2014, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
County Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 9:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Sterling, KS | REPORT RECEIVED VIA TWITTER. |
| May 11, 9:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Sterling, KS | |
| May 11, 9:12 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 Sw Sterling, KS | |
| May 11, 9:20 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 N Sterling, KS | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS SEEING POWER FLASHES. |
| May 11, 9:23 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Little River, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 1294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
004
WFUS53 KICT 120210
TORICT
KSC159-120230-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0003.140512T0210Z-140512T0230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
910 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 907 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR STERLING...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
LITTLE RIVER AROUND 930 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 3829 9831 3850 9792 3836 9792 3817 9792
3818 9814 3816 9814 3816 9822 3817 9822
3817 9825
TIME...MOT...LOC 0211Z 237DEG 30KT 3824 9816
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$
BILLINGS WRIGHTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 42 min |
| May 11, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 43 min |
| May 11, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 41 min |
| May 11, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 60 min |
| May 11, 7:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 12 hr |
| May 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, Russell | 47 min |
| May 11, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 33 min |
| May 11, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 24 min |
| May 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 49 min |
| May 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Reno, Rice | 46 min |
| May 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno | 48 min |
| May 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 33 min |
| May 11, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 33 min |
| May 11, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 46 min |
| May 11, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 51 min |
| May 11, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 58 min |
| May 11, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno | 48 min |
| May 11, 11:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 34 min |
| May 11, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick | 48 min |
| May 12, 12:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 24 min |
| May 12, 12:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 28 min |
| May 12, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 31 min |
| May 12, 1:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 29 min |
| May 12, 1:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 31 min |
| May 12, 1:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 25 min |
| May 12, 1:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 28 min |
| May 12, 1:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 23 min |
| May 12, 2:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 32 min |
| May 12, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 30 min |
| May 12, 2:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 35 min |
| May 12, 3:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 37 min |
| May 12, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Neosho | 24 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.