Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2001, 12:29 AM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 25, 2001, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2001, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Butler County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:31 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1763 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
857 WUUS53 KICT 250529 SVRICT KSC015-250630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1229 AM CDT SAT AUG 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT. * AT 1226 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR EL DORADO...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 130 AM CDT... LEON... EL DORADO... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 130 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3790 9657 3786 9700 3764 9697 3766 9652 /HOWERTON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 24, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Aug 25, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.