Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2001, 4:07 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Harvey County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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.
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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 012110 CCA TORICT KSC079-012145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 407 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 407 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCPHERSON...OR 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF HESSTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR NORTH NEWTON AROUND 410 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARVEY COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3822 9737 3814 9751 3793 9731 3800| 9714 /ES NNNN *CORRECTED MOVEMENT
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, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 40 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.