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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2001Harvey County, Kansas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 449 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 261 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTHarper116 min
Jun 5, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner54 min
Jun 5, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper13 min
Jun 5, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper42 min
Jun 5, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler57 min
Jun 5, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner41 min
Jun 5, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler48 min
Jun 5, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner62 min
Jun 5, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk62 min
Jun 5, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner41 min
Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSumner115 min
Jun 5, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley53 min
Jun 5, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson61 min
Jun 5, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick54 min
Jun 5, 11:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSumner115 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.