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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2001Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 9:37 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cowley 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, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC2 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1437 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 060237
TORICT
KSC035-060330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 937 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  ARKANSAS CITY...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF GEUDA SPRINGS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
  TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARKANSAS CITY AROUND 945 PM CDT...
  NEAR WINFIELD AROUND 1005 PM CDT...

AT 937 PM CDT...SUMNER COUNTY EOC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 3 MILES 
SOUTH OF OXFORD MOVING EAST.

IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL
1030 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3732 9712 3703 9712 3709 9687 3737 9688

/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, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey23 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, 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.