Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 322
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 29, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 19.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 4 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.