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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS

May 6, 2015Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2015, 2:40 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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: May 6, 2015, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2015, 2:58 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.5 in

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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
May 6, 1:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

326 
WFUS53 KICT 061940
TORICT
KSC105-062015-
/O.NEW.KICT.TO.W.0015.150506T1940Z-150506T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
240 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 240 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED NEAR LINCOLN...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

  THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. 

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

  IMPACT...YOU ARE IN A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. FLYING DEBRIS 
           MAY BE DEADLY TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT SHELTER. MOBILE 
           HOMES WILL BE DESTROYED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO 
           HOMES...BUSINESSES AND VEHICLES IS LIKELY AND COMPLETE 
           DESTRUCTION IS POSSIBLE. 

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BARNARD AROUND 250 PM CDT.

# 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A
BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW!

&&

LAT...LON 3916 9793 3904 9805 3906 9815 3906 9817
      3922 9815 3922 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 1940Z 199DEG 33KT 3910 9810 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
TORNADO DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL...1.50IN

$$

MCGUIRE

2 follow-up statements

455 
WWUS53 KICT 061947
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
247 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

KSC105-062015-
/O.CON.KICT.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-150506T2015Z/
LINCOLN KS-
247 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...
    
AT 247 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER BARNARD...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINCOLN...MOVING
NORTH AT 40 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG 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...
  BARNARD AROUND 250 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY HIDE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE
TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3916 9793 3910 9803 3911 9814 3922 9815
      3922 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 199DEG 33KT 3916 9807 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN

$$

MCGUIRE

845 
WWUS53 KICT 061958
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
258 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

KSC105-062008-
/O.CAN.KICT.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-150506T2015Z/
LINCOLN KS-
258 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3916 9793 3910 9803 3911 9814 3922 9815
      3922 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 199DEG 33KT 3926 9802 

$$

MCGUIRE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 2:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	7 hr
May 6, 2:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	7 hr
May 6, 2:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	5 hr
May 6, 11:05 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more	11 hr
May 6, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	39 min
May 6, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	40 min
May 6, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	47 min
May 6, 2:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	24 min
May 6, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	28 min
May 6, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	30 min
May 6, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	42 min
May 6, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	35 min
May 6, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	24 min
May 6, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	30 min
May 6, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	27 min
May 6, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	55 min
May 6, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Sedgwick	38 min
May 6, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion	18 min
May 6, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	22 min
May 6, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	41 min
May 6, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	44 min
May 6, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	29 min
May 6, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Saline	39 min
May 6, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	36 min
May 6, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	49 min
May 6, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	35 min

Nearby

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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.