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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT for Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 5 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
- Jun 3, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Attica, KS | |
| Jun 3, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Attica, KS | Occurred in open field. |
| Jun 3, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Zenda, KS | |
| Jun 3, 9:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Spivey, KS | |
| Jun 3, 9:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Zenda, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 4819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.9
- Supercell composite
- 30.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 040201 TORICT KSC077-095-040245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 900 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHERN HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 900 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES EAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATTICA. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORWICH AROUND 940 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! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. n REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN AND NORTHERN HARPER COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3748 9839 3723 9834 3733 9782 3768 9783 /NOONAN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 112 min |
| Jun 3, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Jun 3, 11:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 61 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.