Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 164
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 21, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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.
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 43 min |
| Apr 21, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 40 min |
| Apr 21, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 62 min |
| Apr 21, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 53 min |
| Apr 21, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 30 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, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| Apr 21, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 49 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, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 53 min |
| Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 45 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 21, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 50 min |
| Apr 21, 11:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 44 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 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
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 21, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 22, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 28 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 22, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cloud, Comanche, Cowley, Decatur and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Gove and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 45 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.