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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2001Harper County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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 5, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Harper County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 6:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Harper, KS
Jun 5, 7:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Harper, KS
Jun 5, 7:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Harper, KS	Trees with 12-16 inch diameter trunks uprooted.

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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 052345
TORICT
KSC077-060030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
645 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 645 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 30 MILES EAST OF MEDICINE
  LODGE...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF HARPER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS
  STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF HARPER COUNTY...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

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

LAT...LON 3732 9811 3717 9816 3714 9790 3728 9789

/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, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	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.