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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Wichita, KS

May 6, 2001Woodson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2001, 5:57 PM CDT for Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Woodson County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 6, 6:06 PM CDT	Hail 1	Batesville, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KICT 062257
SVRICT
KSC207-062345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
557 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WOODSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT.

* AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF BATESVILLE...OR ABOUT 25
  MILES WEST OF IOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 645 PM CDT...
  YATES CENTER...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT...WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY
OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WOODSON
COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3795 9589 3781 9589 3787 9560 3798 9565

/DARMOFAL

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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, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.