Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 2001, 6:16 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 2 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
- Jul 27, 2001, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Atwood, KS | A brief tornado touched down over open fields across southern Rawlins county. |
| Jul 27, 7:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Blakeman, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 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 272316 TORGLD KSC153-280000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 616 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 616 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEARDSLEY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BLAKEMAN AROUND 625 PM CDT ATWOOD AROUND 630 PM CDT LUDELL AROUND 645 PM CDT HERNDON AROUND 700 PM CDT A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAkS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW! $$ LAT...LON 3960 10137 3959 10079 3996 10077 3998 10136 VPAPOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 9:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wichita | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| Jul 27, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 42 min |
| Jul 27, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 46 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.