Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 317
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 29, 2001, 12:00 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 22 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2001, 12:00 PM MDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 12:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 29, 12:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 min |
| May 29, 12:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 38 min |
| May 29, 1:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 53 min |
| May 29, 1:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 38 min |
| May 29, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| May 29, 1:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 61 min |
| May 29, 2:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 58 min |
| May 29, 2:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wallace | 3 hr |
| May 29, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 52 min |
| May 29, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 min |
| May 29, 2:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 40 min |
| May 29, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 60 min |
| May 29, 2:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| May 29, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| May 29, 2:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 25 min |
| May 29, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 30 min |
| May 29, 3:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 47 min |
| May 29, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 52 min |
| May 29, 3:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 64 min |
| May 29, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 33 min |
| May 29, 3:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 58 min |
| May 29, 3:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 42 min |
| May 29, 3:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 3 hr |
| May 29, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 49 min |
| May 29, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 55 min |
| May 29, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 45 min |
| May 29, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 43 min |
| May 29, 4:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 56 min |
| May 29, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 46 min |
| May 29, 4:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 441 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 28, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more | 4 hr |
| May 29, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers | 6 hr |
| May 29, 1:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 16 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.