Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2001, 5:44 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.
084 WFUS53 KICT 232245 TORICT KSC105-232345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 544 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 541 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 14 MILES EAST OF RUSSELL...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUCAS. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF SYLVAN GROVE AROUND 615 PM CDT. LARGE HAIL OF GOLFBALL SIZE OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS TO 90 MPH MAY ALSO EXPERIENCED FROM THIS STORM IN SOUTHWEST LINCOLN COUNTY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH A HISTORY OF TORNADOES. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3903 9847 3887 9847 3888 9823 3902 9819 /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, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 49 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.