Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 146
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 14, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Stafford | 49 min |
| Apr 14, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 44 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1970 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 5 hr |
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.