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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS

April 14, 2001Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2001, 6:34 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report 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: Apr 14, 2001, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 56 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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
Apr 14, 6:55 PM CDT	Hail 1	Penalosa, 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
Apr 14, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 142336
TORICT
KSC095-150030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
634 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 634 PM CDT A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES EAST OF
  PRATT...OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CUNNINGHAM. RADAR SHOWED THIS
  TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE
  8 MILES NORTH OF NASHVILLE AROUND 650 PM CDT...
  10 MILES SOUTH OF KINGMAN AROUND 715 PM CDT...

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

A LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN COUNTY
UNTIL 730 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3760 9872 3741 9844 3740 9808 3765 9809
          3766 9839

/OMITT
&

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	39 min
Apr 14, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	54 min
Apr 14, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	62 min
Apr 14, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	56 min
Apr 14, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	59 min
Apr 14, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	56 min
Apr 14, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	53 min
Apr 14, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	44 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.