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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Wichita, KS

September 17, 2001Harvey County, Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2001, 6:02 PM CDT for Harvey County, Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 3 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: Sep 17, 2001, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Harvey County, KS, Reno County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
Sep 17, 6:20 PM CDT	Hail 1	Buhler, KS
Sep 17, 6:40 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Burrton, KS
Sep 17, 6:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Burrton, 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

588 
WFUS53 KICT 172304
TORICT
KSC079-155-180000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
602 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 602 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...OR OVER
  BUHLER. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR BUHLER AND NORTHEAST RENO COUNTY...
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF HARVEY COUNTY...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARVEY AND RENO
COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3817 9787 3810 9785 3802 9754 3817 9753
          3817 9778

/NOONAN

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	60 min
Sep 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Rice	32 min
Sep 17, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	67 min
Sep 17, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	McPherson	67 min
Sep 17, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	14 min
Sep 17, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	58 min
Sep 17, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	66 min
Sep 17, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler	51 min
Sep 17, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	54 min
Sep 17, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.