Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 495
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 1, 2001, 5:00 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 6 counties in Kansas; Chase County, Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2001, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2001, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 5:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips | 24 min |
| Jul 1, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Jul 1, 7:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 57 min |
| Jul 1, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 61 min |
| Jul 1, 9:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -563 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Deuel, Frontier, Garden and 10 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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.