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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 2 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.
- 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
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 & 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, 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, 8:42 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, 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.