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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2001, 10:50 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 4 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2001, 10:50 PM CDT (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Haven, KS | |
| Aug 24, 11:02 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Haven, KS | |
| Aug 24, 11:03 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Haven, KS | |
| Aug 24, 11:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Haven, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1763 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
804 WFUS53 KICT 250350 TORICT KSC155-250430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1050 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1050 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 10 MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON...OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAVEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HAVEN AROUND 1100 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 RENO COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3802 9784 3794 9796 3778 9776 3792 9771 /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 24, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Aug 25, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.