Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 7:21 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. 2 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, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sumner County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Argonia, KS | Occurred along Highway 44 from Blackstone Rd. to S Argonia Rd. Also reported by Harper County sheriff. |
| Jun 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Argonia, 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 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 060022 TORICT KSC191-060115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 721 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 721 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 40 MILES EAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARGONIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CALDWELL AROUND 810 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWESTERN SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3727 9779 3704 9778 3702 9761 3722 9759 /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harper | 116 min |
| Jun 5, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 13 min |
| Jun 5, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 23 min |
| Jun 5, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 115 min |
| Jun 5, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Jun 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 115 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.