Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 14, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Chautauqua County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Cedar Vale, KS | Brief touchdown in open country. |
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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 150230 TORICT KSC019-150330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 930 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 930 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 35 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF GRENOLA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 1030 PM CDT INCLUDE... CLOVERDALE... SEDAN... PERU... 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. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3728 9650 3722 9652 3705 9602 3729 9598 /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, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 35 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, 9:36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.