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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS

April 14, 2001Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2001, 7:26 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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: Apr 14, 2001, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 14, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 1143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 10.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 150026
TORICT
KSC095-150115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
726 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 726 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 35 MILES SOUTH OF
  HUTCHINSON...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KINGMAN...MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

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

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN COUNTY
UNTIL 815 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3766 9820 3754 9804 3754 9782 3772 9782

/OMITT

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	60 min
Apr 14, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	66 min
Apr 14, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	41 min
Apr 14, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	58 min
Apr 14, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	55 min
Apr 14, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	41 min
Apr 14, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	55 min
Apr 14, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	35 min
Apr 14, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	65 min
Apr 14, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	38 min
Apr 14, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	60 min
Apr 14, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	69 min
Apr 14, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	56 min
Apr 14, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	52 min
Apr 14, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	63 min
Apr 14, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	61 min
Apr 14, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	51 min
Apr 14, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	48 min
Apr 14, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	28 min
Apr 14, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	75 min
Apr 14, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	40 min
Apr 14, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.