Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 360
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT for 43 counties in Kansas; Pawnee County, Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 112 min |
| Jun 3, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Jun 3, 11:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 55 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 603 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 5 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.