Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2001, 7:50 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 30, 2001, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Glendale, KS | Hail covered the ground. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 010050 TORICT KSC169-010130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 750 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 749 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 15 MILES WEST OF SALINA... OR 8 MILES NORTH OF BROOKVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SMOLAN AROUND 825 PM CDT... AT 745 PM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A WALL CLOUD ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROOKVILLE IN EXTREME NORTHWEST SALINE COUNTY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SALINE COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3902 9789 3884 9795 3860 9762 3896 9762 ES & NNNN
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, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.