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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS

April 21, 2001Ellsworth County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2001, 9:52 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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 21, 2001, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ellsworth County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 21, 10:45 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Ellsworth, KS	Time estimated. Hail occurred very close to tornado occurrence.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 12.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 220252
TORICT
KSC053-220345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
952 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 952 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  RUSSELL...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLYROOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF ELLSWORTH COUNTY...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW!

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELLSWORTH COUNTY
UNTIL 1045 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3884 9847 3863 9846 3880 9815 3885 9817

/HOWERTON

N&NNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	54 min
Apr 21, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	61 min
Apr 21, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	53 min
Apr 21, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	64 min
Apr 21, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	65 min
Apr 21, 9:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton	23 min
Apr 21, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	59 min
Apr 21, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	58 min
Apr 21, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	53 min
Apr 21, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	60 min
Apr 22, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	33 min
Apr 22, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	31 min
Apr 22, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	56 min
Apr 22, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	46 min
Apr 22, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	47 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.