Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2001, 5:29 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- May 6, 2001, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Greenwood County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Quincy, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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
- 466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 062230 SVRICT KSC073-062300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 529 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT. * AT 527 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF TORONTO...OR ABOUT 31 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHANUTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 600 PM CDT... AREAS SOUTH OF QUINCY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT...WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3793 9604 3782 9599 3783 9596 3795 9597 /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, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 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, 5:46 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
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.