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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS

April 11, 2001Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 2001, 2:47 AM CDT for Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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 11, 2001, 2:47 AM CDT (07:47 UTC)
Expired
Apr 11, 2001, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 11, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-04-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 205 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 110747
TORICT
KSC053-159-110815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
247 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHERN RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 315 AM CDT

* AT 247 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 27 MILES EAST OF GREAT
  BEND...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUSHTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55
  MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR GENESEO AROUND 250 AM CDT...
  NEAR KANOPOLIS AROUND 300 AM CDT...
  NEAR KANOPOLIS LAKE AROUND 305 AM CDT...

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

IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY S*TRUCTURE.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELLSWORTH AND RICE
COUNTIES UNTIL 315 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3849 9845 3839 9826 3869 9794 3877 9832

/CARUSO

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton64 min
Apr 11, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton46 min
Apr 11, 2:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice41 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.