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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 7:37 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Harvey 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 060038 TORICT KSC079-060100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 737 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 737 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 21 MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * AT 737 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 21 MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWTON. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS JUST SOUTHEAST OF NEWTON AND OVER RURAL AREAS OF HARVEY COUNTY... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EASTERN HARVEY COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3803 9741 3793 9732 3796 9716 3813 9717 /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, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 54 min |
| Jun 5, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 13 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.