Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 454

June 19, 200124 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche59 min
Jun 19, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber48 min
Jun 19, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods50 min
Jun 19, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper62 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 41 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-495 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
710 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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 19, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 34 more4 hr

Nearby

Severe 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.