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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2001, 8:07 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min. 2 reports 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 21, 2001, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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 21, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Olmitz, KS | |
| Apr 21, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Olmitz, 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 21, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 220109 SVRICT KSC009-220200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 807 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT. * AT 805 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF OTIS...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWEST BARTON COUNTY... INCLUDING GALATIA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3869 9902 3844 9901 3854 9879 3869 9874 /HOWERTON NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 21, 6:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 6:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 602 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001 ...MESOSCALE UPDATE... MAIN FOCUS FOR TSTMS OVR NEXT FEW HRS WL BE ALG WFNT CURRENTLY EXTENDING FM NR SLN TO JUST S OF RSL. THE FNT CONTS TO MOVE TO THE N. MOST IMPORTANTLY THE HILLSBORO PROFILER/RASS SOUNDING SHOWS STG CAP. THIS IS CONSISTANT WITH BOTH LAPS SOUNDINGS. RADAR TRENDS ALSO SIMILAR WITH WEAK DVLPMT ALG FNT IN CNTRL KS BUT WITH MOST/STONGEST TSTMS TO THE NE WHERE CAP IS WEAKER. WHILE CANNOT RUN OUT AN ISOLATED/BRIEF STG/SVR TSTM IN CNTRL KS THRU SUNSET...BELIEVE BETTER CHC WL BE LATER TONIGHT AS LLVL JET KICKS IN AND SOME COOLING ALF. HOWEVER THE BIG QUESTION THEN IS WHERE WL THE FNT BE LOCATED? IF 12Z MODELS ARE CORRECT MUCH OF ACTIVITY WL END UP N OF OUR FCST AREA. THE ONLY OTHER CHC WOULD BE IF TSTMS DVLP ALG RETREATING DRYLN TO THE W AND THEN MOVE INTO THE AREA...BUT AGAIN THAT WOULD LKLY BE MUCH LATER TNGT. HOWERTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 54 min |
| Apr 21, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 64 min |
| Apr 21, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 23 min |
| Apr 21, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 59 min |
| Apr 21, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 53 min |
| Apr 21, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 58 min |
| Apr 21, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 53 min |
| Apr 21, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 47 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.