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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Wichita, KS

June 1, 2001McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2001, 3:46 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 1, 2001, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County McPherson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 012046
TORICT
KSC113-012130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
346 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCPHERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 346 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MCPHERSON...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF MOUNDRIDGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
  MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR MOUNDRIDGE AROUND 355 PM CDT...

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

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

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY
UNTIL 430 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3841 9754 3827 9769 3817 9749 3829 9736

/ES

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	50 min
Jun 1, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	45 min
Jun 1, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	40 min
Jun 1, 4:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	38 min
Jun 1, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	50 min
Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion	45 min
Jun 1, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	29 min
Jun 1, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler	40 min
Jun 1, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	63 min
Jun 1, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	64 min
Jun 1, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	36 min
Jun 1, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.