Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2001, 6:44 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, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 7:45 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), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.
317 WFUS53 KICT 232345 TORICT KSC105-240045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 644 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 644 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 30 MILES EAST OF RUSSELL...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SYLVAN GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR LINCOLN AROUND 705 PM CDT... NEAR BEVERLY AROUND 730 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3907 9838 3888 9837 3888 9794 3907 9795 /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, 5:44 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, 6:52 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.