Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2001, 5:46 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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 6, 2001, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 974 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 062246 SVRICT KSC035-062330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 546 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT. * AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAPLE CITY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF MAPLE CITY. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 630 PM CDT... MAPLE CITY... 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 COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3716 9684 3700 9681 3702 9653 3718 9654 /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, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 31 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.