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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 5:40 PM CDT for Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 5, 2001, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kingman County, KS, Reno County, KS
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 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 2060 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 052240 TORICT KSC095-155-052345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 540 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHERN KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 540 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF KINGMAN. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR PRETTY PRAIRIE AROUND 600 PM CDT... NEAR HAVEN AROUND 640 PM CDT... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON AROUND 645 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RENO AND NORTHERN KINGMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3770 9832 3758 9816 3794 9762 3813 9786 /URBAN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 45 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.