Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 215
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 9, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 42 min |
| May 9, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 45 min |
| May 9, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 48 min |
| May 9, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 45 min |
| May 9, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 28 min |
| May 9, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 46 min |
| May 9, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 43 min |
| May 9, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 52 min |
| May 9, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 47 min |
| May 9, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 38 min |
| May 9, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 39 min |
| May 9, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Sherman | 49 min |
| May 9, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 42 min |
| May 9, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 67 min |
| May 9, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| May 9, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 43 min |
| May 9, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 26 min |
| May 9, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 54 min |
| May 9, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 47 min |
| May 9, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 43 min |
| May 9, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 37 min |
| May 9, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 955 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001
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.