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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2001Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 8:42 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Butler County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 8:53 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	El Dorado Res, KS
Jun 5, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Rosalia, 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, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	2 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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.

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: 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 060142
TORICT
KSC015-060230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 842 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTH OF EL
  DORADO...OR 8 MILES EAST OF POTWIN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS
  STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

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

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

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

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHERN BUTLER 
COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3800 9696 3782 9696 3780 9653 3803 9654

/URBAN

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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, 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, 8:43 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.