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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2001, 4:44 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 7, 2001, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
142 WFUS53 KICT 072144 TORICT KSC169-072230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 444 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES SOUTH OF SALINA...OR 5 MILES WEST OF ASSARIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ASSARIA AROUND 450 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SALINE COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3867 9786 3862 9768 3862 9750 3881 9748 /OMITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 49 min |
| Sep 7, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 54 min |
| Sep 7, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 28 min |
| Sep 7, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 58 min |
| Sep 7, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 66 min |
| Sep 7, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 61 min |
| Sep 7, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 71 min |
| Sep 7, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 75 min |
| Sep 7, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 min |
| Sep 7, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 66 min |
| Sep 7, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 47 min |
| Sep 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 63 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.