Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2001, 9:44 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 4 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, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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, 9:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Zenda, KS | |
| Jun 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Spivey, KS | |
| Jun 3, 10:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rago, KS | |
| Jun 3, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Rago, KS | Occurred in open country. |
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 |
| Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 040245 TORICT KSC095-040345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 944 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 944 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 24 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF SPIVEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORWICH AROUND 1045 PM CDT... 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. HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THE STORM MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE gROAD. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3756 9838 3739 9838 3740 9781 3769 9784 /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, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 62 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.