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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 375

June 5, 20014 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2001, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties

Adams County, IL, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 10:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXClay, Ray4 hr
Jun 5, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson61 min
Jun 5, 11:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 449 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 261 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
7.3

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 3 more2 hr
Jun 5, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Dewey, Greer, Kiowa, Roger Mills and 1 more4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2001Severe 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.