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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2001, 8:03 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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
- May 5, 2001, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 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), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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, 1.1 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
- 870 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 060103 SVRICT KSC015-060200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 803 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT. * AT 759 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ANDOVER...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BENTON AROUND 810 PM CDT... NEAR TOWANDA AROUND 820 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. 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 WESTERN BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3778 9714 3765 9713 3783 9688 3797 9701 /DARMOFAL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 54 min |
| May 5, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 43 min |
| May 5, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 23 min |
| May 5, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 46 min |
| May 5, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 61 min |
| May 6, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 43 min |
| May 6, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 31 min |
| May 6, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 44 min |
| May 6, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 48 min |
| May 6, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.