Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 576
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 18, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT for 43 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 33 min |
| Jul 18, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 53 min |
| Jul 18, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 53 min |
| Jul 18, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 61 min |
| Jul 18, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 1142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.