Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 166
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 22, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2001, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth 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, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris 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, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 6 more | 5 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.