Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2001, 8:35 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2001, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Rock, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 150135 SVRICT KSC015-035-150230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 835 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT. * AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF UDALL...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 930 PM CDT... DOUGLASS... ATLANTA... 10 MILES SOUTH OF LATHAM... AREAS BETWEEN ATLANTA AND BURDEN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR SAFER SHELTER. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 SOUTHERN BUTLER AND COWLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3760 9712 3734 9715 3721 9655 3756 9651 /WOLF NNNN U
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 49 min |
| Apr 14, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 55 min |
| Apr 14, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 69 min |
| Apr 14, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 56 min |
| Apr 14, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 52 min |
| Apr 14, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 51 min |
| Apr 14, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 75 min |
| Apr 14, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.