Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2001, 7:18 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 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), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 020018 TORICT KSC191-020045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 718 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 718 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 3 MILES WEST OF CONWAY SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CONWAY SPRINGS AROUND 720 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3748 9768 3738 9778 3721 9761 3743 9744 /CHANCE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 56 min |
| Jun 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 64 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.