Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 1:22 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2001, 1:22 PM MDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:35 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Wallace, KS | |
| May 29, 1:50 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Weskan, KS | |
| May 29, 2:05 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Sharon Spgs, KS | |
| May 29, 2:08 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Sharon Spgs, KS | Quarter size hail completely covering the ground. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 12:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 291922 TORGLD KSC199-292000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 122 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 200 PM MDT * AT 122 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WALLACE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DEbTECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW! $$ LAT...LON 3902 10207 3885 10202 3900 10170 3915 10183 BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:48 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 42 min |
| May 29, 1:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 53 min |
| May 29, 2:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 58 min |
| May 29, 2:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wallace | 3 hr |
| May 29, 2:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 25 min |
| May 29, 3:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 47 min |
| May 29, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.