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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2001, 5:11 PM CDT for Russell 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
- Aug 23, 2001, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
965 WFUS53 KICT 232213 TORICT KSC167-232300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 511 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 511 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES NORTH OF RUSSELL...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LURAY. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUSSELL AROUND 515 PM CDT... 8 MILES SOUTH OF LUCAS AROUND 545 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. AT 508 PM CDT...A KSN WEATHER WATCHER REPORTED A BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUD ABOUT 5 TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LURAY. 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 RUSSELL COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3911 9897 3897 9897 3884 9857 3911 9854 /CARUSO & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 51 min |
| Aug 22, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 60 min |
| Aug 22, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 51 min |
| Aug 23, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 36 min |
| Aug 23, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 63 min |
| Aug 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 53 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.