Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2001, 8:55 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 14, 2001, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 150156 TORICT KSC035-150230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 855 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 855 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 21 MILES NORTH OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 930 PM CDT INCLUDE... AREAS BETWEEN WINFIELD AND BURDEN... BURDEN... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3746 9692 3729 9699 3715 9655 3742 9653 /WOLF NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 49 min |
| Apr 14, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 55 min |
| Apr 14, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 55 min |
| Apr 14, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 69 min |
| Apr 14, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 56 min |
| Apr 14, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 52 min |
| Apr 14, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 51 min |
| Apr 14, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 75 min |
| Apr 14, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 61 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.