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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS

April 21, 2001Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 21, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2001, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 21, 10:58 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Lincoln, KS
Apr 21, 11:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Lincoln, KS	Minor damage to one home as well as a few trees.

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
Apr 21, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 1118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 12.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 220345
TORICT
KSC105-220445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1045 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1045 PM CDT A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 32 MILES EAST
  OF RUSSELL...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF ELLSWORTH. RADAR SHOWED THIS
  TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE
  NEAR LINCOLN AROUND 1105 PM CDT...
  NEAR BEVERLY AROUND 1115 PM CDT...

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN COUNTY
UNTIL 1145 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3887 9835 3887 9810 3900 9794 3907 9814

/HOWERTON
&

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	54 min
Apr 21, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	61 min
Apr 21, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	53 min
Apr 21, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	64 min
Apr 21, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	65 min
Apr 21, 9:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton	23 min
Apr 21, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	59 min
Apr 21, 9:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	53 min
Apr 21, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	58 min
Apr 21, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	53 min
Apr 22, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	33 min
Apr 22, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	31 min
Apr 22, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	56 min
Apr 22, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	46 min
Apr 22, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	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.