Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 617
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 23, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 67 min |
| Jul 23, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 67 min |
| Jul 23, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 57 min |
| Jul 23, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 53 min |
| Jul 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 55 min |
| Jul 23, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 63 min |
| Jul 23, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 61 min |
| Jul 24, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 615 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
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 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove and 20 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe 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.