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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Wichita, KS

May 20, 2001Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 20, 2001, 7:24 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 20, 2001, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2001, 8:10 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 621 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
621 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 210025
TORICT

KSC173-210110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
724 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 810 PM CDT

* AT 724 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A WALL CLOUD 5 IN DOWNTOWN 
WICHITA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW!

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY
UNTIL 810 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3780 9729 3761 9731 3759 9715 3780 9715

/FINCH
&

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton43 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.