Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 4:27 PM CDT for Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas; Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2001, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Johnson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Cass County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 4:35 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Stilwell, KS | |
| Apr 10, 4:42 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Belton, MO | |
| Apr 10, 4:46 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Belton, MO | |
| Apr 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Belton, MO | |
| Apr 10, 4:58 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Pleasant Hill, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 102127 TORMCI KSC091-121-MOC037-102200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 427 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHEASTERN MIAMI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHERN CASS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 427 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF BUCYRUS...OR 5 MILES EAST OF SPRING HILL...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BELTON AT 440 PM CDT RAYMORE AT 445 PM CDT LAKE WINNEBAGO AT 450 PM CDT PLEASANT HILL AT 455 PM CDT WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT DRIVE INTO THIS STORM AND DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS LAT...LON 3882 9493 3864 9488 3865 9420 3882 9419
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 63 min |
| Apr 9, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 44 min |
| Apr 10, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 38 min |
| Apr 10, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 38 min |
| Apr 10, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 27 min |
| Apr 10, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 59 min |
| Apr 9, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 60 min |
| Apr 9, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 59 min |
| Apr 9, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 54 min |
| Apr 10, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 66 min |
| Apr 10, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 57 min |
| Apr 10, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson | 55 min |
| Apr 10, 5:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pettis | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 52 min |
| Apr 10, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 3 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 112 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.