Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 239
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 17, 2001, 1:45 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2001, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 54 min |
| May 17, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 57 min |
| May 17, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 58 min |
| May 17, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Major | 46 min |
| May 17, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 54 min |
| May 17, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 22 min |
| May 17, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 62 min |
| May 17, 3:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 52 min |
| May 17, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 46 min |
| May 17, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 33 min |
| May 17, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 53 min |
| May 17, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 49 min |
| May 17, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 31 min |
| May 17, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 67 min |
| May 17, 5:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 2166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 5 hr |
| May 17, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 5 hr |
| May 17, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 6 hr |
| May 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Custer, Dewey and 8 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.