Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 590
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 19, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri; Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 62 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1599 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 18, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.