Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2001, 2:16 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
- May 27, 2001, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:32 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Argonia, KS | |
| May 27, 2:39 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Argonia, 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 27, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1272 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 271918 TORICT KSC191-272000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 216 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 216 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 38 MILES WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF ARGONIA. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 245 PM CDT INCLUDE...CALDWELL... AT 216 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A WALL CLOUD 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLUFF CITY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 245 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3726 9778 3708 9781 3701 9738 3715 9734 /FINCH & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 60 min |
| May 27, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| May 27, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| May 27, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 50 min |
| May 27, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 55 min |
| May 27, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 66 min |
| May 27, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 45 min |
| May 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 55 min |
| May 27, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 55 min |
| May 27, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| May 27, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 51 min |
| May 27, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick | 63 min |
| May 27, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 65 min |
| May 27, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 54 min |
| May 27, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.