Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 455
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT for 40 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 10:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 12:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 46 min |
| Jun 20, 12:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 615 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark, Coffey and 18 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.