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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wichita, KS

April 30, 2001Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2001, 7:26 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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: Apr 30, 2001, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 666 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 010028
TORICT
KSC105-010100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
726 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 726 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  SALINA...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF BEVERLY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
  THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

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

AT 720 PM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED MASSIVE ROTATION 
OVER SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY NEAR WESTFALL AS WELL AS A FEW FUNNEL 
CLOUDS.

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

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN COUN5TY
UNTIL 800 PM CDT.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED 
FOR LINCOLN COUNTY AT 635 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3909 9801 3895 9815 3885 9797 3907 9794

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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 30, 7:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	118 min
Apr 30, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Saline	40 min
Apr 30, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	60 min
Apr 30, 9:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	3 hr

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.