Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 5, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Harvey County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Halstead, KS | Downed limbs. |
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 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
111 WFUS53 KICT 052331 TORICT KSC079-060015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 630 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 18 MILES EAST OF HUTCHINSON...OR NEAR HALSTEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HALSTEAD AROUND 635 PM CDT... REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARVEY COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3797 9768 3793 9754 3805 9741 3815 9755 /CARUSO & 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, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 65 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, 6:45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.