Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 373
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Clay, Cloud and 35 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Pratt and 4 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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.