Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2001, 6:17 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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 31, 2001, 6:17 PM MDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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 31, 6:35 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Edson, KS | |
| May 31, 6:45 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Edson, KS | |
| May 31, 7:00 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Edson, KS |
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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 010018 TORGLD KSC181-010100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 617 PM MDT THU MAY 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM MDT * AT 617 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTH OF EDSON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... EDSON AROUND 640 PM MDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. AT A LAST RESORT...A DITCH OR LOW SPOT OFFERS BETTER PROTECTION THAN YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES EVEN IF TIED DOWN. DO NOT USE A CAR TO TRY AND OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND AND CAN BECOME MISSILES IN TORNADIC WINDS. $$ LAT...LON 3956 10140 3955 10171 3914 10164 3915 10139 VPAPOL &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 42 min |
| May 31, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 32 min |
| May 31, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas | 43 min |
| May 31, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 49 min |
| May 31, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 31 min |
| May 31, 8:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 64 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.