Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 9:11 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2001, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 493 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 070211 SVRICT KSC191-070315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 911 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT. * AT 908 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUNNYMEDE TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAKITA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA TO 44 MILES WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1015 PM CDT... CALDWELL... CONWAY SPRINGS... WELLINGTON... BELLE PLAINE... GEUDA SPRINGS... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR JSUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3745 9780 3699 9780 3708 9713 3744 9719 /WOLF NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 32 min |
| Apr 6, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 54 min |
| Apr 6, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Apr 6, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 63 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.