Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2001, 7:54 AM CDT for Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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 2, 2001, 7:54 AM CDT (12:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2001, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Elk County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:56 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 2, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 021254 SVRICT KSC049-021345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 754 AM CDT MON APR 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 845 AM CDT. * AT 750 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRENOLA...OR ABOUT 37 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL DORADO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 845 AM CDT... MOLINE... HOWARD... ELK FALLS... LONGTON... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELK COUNTY UNTIL 845 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3749 9653 3731 9652 3731 9597 3750 9597 RUNYAN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 58 min |
| Apr 2, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| Apr 2, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 46 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.